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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
I made a test. I wrote Hello world! in MS Word 2010 and save it as .DOCX. Wow, almost 16kB instead of 12B, the size of the ROM in an 1982 personal computer like Sinclair Spectrum ZX, which contained the BASIC interpreter as well.
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Tests are fine, but this is apples and pears. The ROM of an Spectrum was 16kB, not 12B of course. It had a very limited instruction set (although it was phenomenal at its time and I loved it), not compared to the current processors of course. Also, Tasword2, the wordprocessor of the Spectrum, was nowhere near in functionality compared to Word of course.
Even if you just created a Hello World! in Notepad and saved it as pure text, it would still be at least 1kB due to the blocksize. A Word file has much more information contained in it, due to the increased functionality. Is there overhead? Yes, of course. But not as bad as you describe.
If you are fine on working with unsupported (OS) software, great. That is your call. You cannot however expect that you can run the latest version of other programs on an unsupported OS. If it does, you are in luck. If not, you can always run the older versions.
Qt5 offers many improvements against version 4 and it makes a lot of sense to use it. Of course it contains new bug, but also solves a lot of others. If all developers had your line of thinking, there would not be progress and improvements.