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Couldn't agree more...People were creating universes with 1.44MB on floppies. Instead, Viber desktop app installer, for example, is a 133MB download, ~300MB ins

• mwcampbell 8y ago
  Never mind a universe in 1.44MB; Elite did it in 32KB, albeit with wireframe graphics. [1] The bloat of many current desktop apps, each with their own copy of a large-footprint GUI toolkit or rendering engine, is indeed sad by comparison. I hope this situation will change when Windows 7 and IE 11 are finally history, meaning that desktop app developers can count on the OS to provide a modern web rendering engine on all platforms. [1]: https://www.filfre.net/2013/12/elite/ https://www.filfre.net/2013/12/elite/