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So the biggest phone manufacturer now owns a lot of Node.js expertise. Hopefully that leads to more JS in mobile!

by brotherjerky 10y ago

wvenable 10y ago
I had a friend ask why the Oneplus one 3 could possibly need 6GB of RAM. Thank you for providing a possible answer! :)
- tracker1 10y ago
  Well, buffering 4K video, while running other active services in the background... finally broke down and installed FB messenger again, and it's definitely better, but there are a lot of consistent apps that tend to be very bloated as it is. Given how well React Native tends to work, and I have to be honest, I like the ecosystem structure better than most apps I've worked on in general, I can see it actually working out better in many cases.
  - fungi 10y ago
    > finally broke down and installed FB messenger again, Prob not great for more advanced messenger functionality but Face Slim (https://github.com/indywidualny/FaceSlim https://github.com/indywidualny/FaceSlim) does notifications and simple/group chats fairly well.
    - tracker1 10y ago
      What sucks is I was perfectly happy with fb web, until they started cutting features in mobile (can't post to a friend's wall, can't do a lot of things now). The biggest issue is FB the app didn't respect the environment/usability settings for extra large fonts.
jankassens 10y ago
They're definitely doing research for efficient JS on low end devices: - AOT compilation for a subset of JS: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-13.pdf http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-13... - "A JavaScript engine for Internet of Things": http://samsung.github.io/jerryscript/ http://samsung.github.io/jerryscript/
- msie 10y ago
  The only thing JS has going for it is it's wide adoption. Basing a new language on it to run on low end devices just seems like a dead-end for me. At least the first link is to a typed subset of JS.

So the biggest phone manufacturer now owns a lot of Node.js expertise. Hopefully that leads to more JS in mobile!

wvenable 10y ago

I had a friend ask why the Oneplus one 3 could possibly need 6GB of RAM. Thank you for providing a possible answer! :)

tracker1 10y ago
Well, buffering 4K video, while running other active services in the background... finally broke down and installed FB messenger again, and it's definitely better, but there are a lot of consistent apps that tend to be very bloated as it is. Given how well React Native tends to work, and I have to be honest, I like the ecosystem structure better than most apps I've worked on in general, I can see it actually working out better in many cases.
- fungi 10y ago
  > finally broke down and installed FB messenger again, Prob not great for more advanced messenger functionality but Face Slim (https://github.com/indywidualny/FaceSlim https://github.com/indywidualny/FaceSlim) does notifications and simple/group chats fairly well.
  - tracker1 10y ago
    What sucks is I was perfectly happy with fb web, until they started cutting features in mobile (can't post to a friend's wall, can't do a lot of things now). The biggest issue is FB the app didn't respect the environment/usability settings for extra large fonts.

jankassens 10y ago

They're definitely doing research for efficient JS on low end devices: - AOT compilation for a subset of JS: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-13.pdf http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2015/EECS-2015-13... - "A JavaScript engine for Internet of Things": http://samsung.github.io/jerryscript/ http://samsung.github.io/jerryscript/

msie 10y ago
The only thing JS has going for it is it's wide adoption. Basing a new language on it to run on low end devices just seems like a dead-end for me. At least the first link is to a typed subset of JS.