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\title{Sufyaan's Website}
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\author{Sufyaan's Website}
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\date{}
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\begin{document}
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\maketitle
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\section[Keep It Minimal]{Keep It Minimal}\label{why-i-use-terminal-apps}
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\textbf{27 June 2023}
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\textbf{Category: }Software
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In technology, you should keep it simple as much as possible. The KISS
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philosophy and the \href{sufyaan.me/definitions/unix-philosophy/}{UNIX
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philosophy} especially must be followed if you want quality software.
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Most pieces of famous software nowadays do not follow this guideline and
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it is costing millions of people dearly.
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\hypertarget{why-minimal}{%
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\subsection[Why Minimal?]{Why Minimal?}\label{why-minimal}}
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Simply put, a piece of minimal software:
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\begin{enumerate}
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Is easier to maintain
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\item
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Has a dearth of bugs
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Runs fast on all devices
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Is easily extensible
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Helps avoid complications
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\item
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Contributes to the world
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\end{enumerate}
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Let\textquotesingle s expand on the first and second points. Why is
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minimal software so easy to maintain? Why do developers hate being
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developers when they are working with bloated pieces of software?
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Keeping software minimal gives developers the opportunity to easily find
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code that is slowing down the whole program or is inefficient. It also
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helps developers find bugs easy. This is because a smaller codebase
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means that it takes less time to review the code. A group of 10 people
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can easily perfect a program whose codebase is less than 1500 lines.
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After that, it is just a work of maintaining the program and making sure
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that any requests that users have are answered.
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Minimal software runs fast on all devices. It is simply no contest. A
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1000-line Python program is going to be much faster than a 100K-line C
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program even though C is much faster than Python. Inefficiencies and
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lackluster execution of functions in a program can be spotted much more
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easily in a smaller program. There is a huge disregard for old
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computers. People simply cannot use old computers anymore because the
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software that they use is so inefficient that their computer struggles
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to do basic things. For example, they use Adobe Reader to open PDFs
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which is one of the worst things to do. Adobe Reader takes an incredibly
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long time to open considering the fact that they are the ones that
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invented PDFs. Another example is Word. Why does Word take long to open
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and write on? It\textquotesingle s code is bloated. Think of Zathura. It
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is a PDF viewer that follows the
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\href{sufyaan.me/definitions/unix-philosophy/}{UNIX philosophy} of doing one
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thing well. Even on the slowest of computers, Zathura takes milliseconds
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to open a PDF. Think about LaTeX. You do the writing then you compile
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the document into a PDF. It does everything from linking, referencing,
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bibliographies much better than Word. In fact, it is so good that many
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universities require its use for proper formatting and referencing.
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Minimal software can be extensible as per the
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\href{sufyaan.me/definitions/unix-philosophy/}{UNIX philosophy}. Instead of
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creating a massive program that tries to do everything, minimalist
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programs create modules for certain functions. This makes
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troubleshooting a piece of cake as the initial confusion of finding out
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what exactly causes the error is practically eliminated. For example, if
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you are making a login page and the authentication does not work, you
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know that you should look in the authentication module. However, if you
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make it all in a single program, it is difficult to root out whether an
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issue is due to an incorrect variable type or a redundant function.
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All of this helps developers to avoid complications. No team wants
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another error or speed complaint in the middle of another issue. All of
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the advantages listed thus far help developers have peace of mind.
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Finally, minimal pieces of software can be liberated and made into
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\href{sufyaan.me/definitions/free-software/}{free software} to contribute to the
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world. Once the initial stages of bug-fixing and optimization is over,
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it is just a matter of letting the world find ways to make the program
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better. An inefficiency that no one would spot otherwise can be ironed
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out by a top-tier programmer who worked in a plethora of huge companies
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with decades of experience. It also helps budding developers learn about
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development.
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\hypertarget{closing-the-program}{%
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\subsection[Closing The Program]{Closing The
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Program}\label{closing-the-program}}
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To sum it up, everyone should use and develop minimal software if
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possible. This is because minimal software is easier to maintain, debug
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and optimize due to its smaller codebase. It also runs fast on all
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devices and avoids complications during development time. Minimal
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software can also be liberated into
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\href{sufyaan.me/definitions/free-software/}{free software} which will allow
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talented developers to review the program and contribute to the world.
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\end{document}
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