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If Slack's desktop client was written in efficient C++ using platform specific UI framworks it would likely be one to two orders of magnitude more efficient acr
by shinymark 10y ago
If Slack's desktop client was written in efficient C++ using platform specific UI framworks it would likely be one to two orders of magnitude more efficient across all important metrics. Unfortunately the desktop app is basically an entire web browser instance running JavaScript code.
I can see the appeal, however. Write once run anywhere is a hell of a drug.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> I can see the appeal, however. Write once run anywhere is a hell of a drug. It's not just that. It's that you're not paid to write good code, nor efficient code. You're paid to write any shit that works good enough to be sold to users, and to write it as quickly as you can.