@blacklight one way to reclaim the speed and space of software bloat is to rewrite as close to the silicon as possible. I feel it is WAY easier than people think. You don't need fonts, you don't need browsers, you don't need anything but C, sockets, and xcb because we can no longer get to the frame buffer reliably. The bar for rewriting stuff from scratch is pretty low. Some of us have been doing this all our programming lives. I refuse to use bloated layers, see my pinned stuff
@otheorange_tag in short, the best way of writing code is to stick to the UNIX philosophy and its abstractions - as I mentioned somewhere else in the thread :)