Etcher has a validation step also, which I find reassuring. There is a linerar relationship between the length of the source code and the number of bugs, so it is probably not quite as bad as X1000.
Perhaps X100. /Tomas On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:02:51 +0200, Liam Proven wrote: > Balena Etcher is one of my favourite examples. It burns ISO images to > Flash drives, and nothing else. This is a job you can do in 500 kB of > code if you're very lazy and inefficient. > > But Etcher is an Electron app: it's written in JavaScript (a *wildly* > bad choice for such a task) and so it embeds an entire copy of the > Chromium web-rendering engine just to display a line of text and ask > which file and which drive. > > Result: it's an 85MB compressed download, and that's after they have > managed to make it smaller in recent releases. > > It is on the order of _one thousand times_ bigger than it needs to be > to perform its task. That implies that it has in the region of a > thousand times more potential bugs, vulnerabilities etc. > > Just to write a file to a device, something I'd normally do with the command: > dd if=linux.iso of=/dev/sdb > > (27 characters and contains 90% of the functionality of Etcher.) _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
