[tossandthrow]

Yep, it is a SPA - but there is still a category of old grumpy devs who insist that the real web is a single hand crafted HTML file sprinkled with a bit of CSS.

Yes, a 6MB (compressed) bundle is big. But it is not clear that the alternatives are better. The bundle would need to be split increasing complexity of building the application.

It is likely judged that splitting the bundle only has minimal positives compared to the negatives - which also align with my experiecne developing software for roughly the same target segment.

[guappa]

I assure you that 20 years ago websites with chats existed and they worked fine. Which means they weren't so huge because it would have taken days to download that amount of stuff.

[tossandthrow]

Just like 40 years ago we where able to store a POSIX compatible OS on a floppy drive.

The things developers usually forget is that there are other stakeholders than the computer executing code - IMHO a lot of developers would benefit from developing a bit of business acumen.

[guappa]

I doubt customers specifically ask to make the product really large and slow.

[tossandthrow]

No - the customer is not asking to spend additional developer time in minimizing bundles.

This is exactly the type of business acumen that is missing.

[guappa]

Is the customer asking for a product that takes 5 minutes to open? Eventually customers do move away from crap… they're just very slow.

[tossandthrow]

Customers of Slack don't care - and I think you are talking about the users.

This is exactly why developers need more business acumen.