Genuinely serious since this is so much of a meme.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    Computers are becoming faster and faster, we should create simpler programming languages that use more resources.

    Devs thinking like this are the reason our chat apps and some text editors are in electron, wasting tons of system resources, by running what is essentially its own operating system, chromium.

    Just to give an idea, here’s some things I have running on my laptop right now:

    App | Ram

    • | - Signal Desktop (Electron) | 368 Mb Lightcord (Discord, Electron) | 367 Mb Element (Electron) | 212 Mb

    Before electron, back in the AIM / IRC / MSN messenger days, these were tiny programs easily runnable on a 256 MB ram machine.

    This article is about website bloat, but it equally applies to so many of our chat apps that went from using system libraries and GUI frameworks, to the browser.

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      4 years ago

      When an app is installed on millions of devices, making it more efficient can actually make a not insignificant difference in overall power consumption, and therefore environmental impact.

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      1 year ago

      Amen! Electron is a scourge. Look at MicroSIP, a full SIP chat and call client done in MFC. Exe is 3 MB, uses less that 10 MB RAM. Runs super stable, super quick (native GUI) and light enough to always be on.