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> perhaps an app that lets you edit and encode video Fundamentally, 15mb is excessive even for that, even if it is common practice for such things to bloat to
by rlpb 8y ago
> perhaps an app that lets you edit and encode video
Fundamentally, 15mb is excessive even for that, even if it is common practice for such things to bloat to that size.
- ryandrake 8y agoTo put it into perspective, that's larger than the entire post-install size of the original DOOM PC video game, including all sound and artwork.
- osrec 8y agoNot really - imagine if you're looking to create a fully featured video editor, complete with 3d effects and whatnot. It could well exceed 15mb to deliver all the required functionality.
- dvtrn 8y agoShouldn't this be a native desktop application versus foisting it onto web clients? If we're talking "fully featured"?
- osrec 8y agoThis is where the paradigm shift is coming. Your past experiences say it must be a desktop native app, but I believe things like WASM, web workers etc will allow such things to run comfortably in the browser. I really do believe people will build for the browser more than they will for the desktop because it's a more universal platform. I can even imagine a future where, for the majority, the only native app you have on your machine is a browser, and everything else is some variant of a PWA. I really feel this will happen very soon.
- ForHackernews 8y agoThis sounds like a nightmare.
- Spivak 8y agoWhy? I can't wait for this world where everything can run on Linux.