GIMP could learn from this. In folders with many items, its Open (as Layers)/Save as… dialog is super slow (and the loading cannot be skipped even if you know the filename; this may get fixed soon though). The DE has one already, dammit!
Simply building without Crinkler compression changes the file size to 11 kiB and RAM usage to 1.7 MB. That’s almost double what Microsoft’s old Notepad (at a file size of 250-350 kiB, including an uncompressed multi-size RGBA icon of around 100 kiB and localization) uses but not bad, and probably the version most people will prefer for practical use.
It’s a practical project, allowing you to access your code when GitHub is down /s
They do, in the linked GitHub issue:
https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/TinyRetroPad/issues/21
Apparently, that’s just sitting idle.
By not optimizing for file size with Crinkler, the executable grows by a factor of 4 and RAM usage shrinks by a factor of 300. This build will probably be made available to people who value 500 MB RAM per running instance more than the 9 kiB of disk space saved (I assume that’s anyone wanting to use it in practice).
Only 1000 will be made. I think the application approval will cost more than the media
As a Czech, you already know that but the brief democratic Czecho—Slovak Federation (1989-1992) also had a “Hyphen war” (actually just an argument) where Slovakia was not content with the longest hyphen available and wanted an “and” in the middle, breaking grammatical rules. Greater disagreements later resulted in the countries’ peaceful dissolution on New Year’s Eve 1992.