Research
Dependency Bloating and Software Debloating
Software comes usually as a black-box. You don’t know what’s inside of it, and how it was built. Many studies in the field of dependency network modeling came to the same conclusion: software is bloated. No matter how much attention you put in selecting your dependencies, no matter how aware you are to shrink the scope of your dependencies, your software will be bloated. A bloated software is basically an artifact containing (or pointing) to resources other than it needs.