> you'll happily spend 100MB of the user's RAM to make the pain end. And users, at least the savvy ones who hang out here, are saying that this RAM isn't ours

> you'll happily spend 100MB of the user's RAM to make the pain end. And users, at least the savvy ones who hang out here, are saying that this RAM isn't ours to spend. Is there no way that we could spend more resources on our dev machines instead, at build time, to take a piece of code that was pleasant to write and convert it into something that's frugal with resources on the user's machine? C++ and Rust promise abstractions with zero runtime cost compared to the best that you could hand-code. I wonder if the same can be applied to multi-platform GUI toolkits, perhaps through compile-time metaprogramming.