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Its built on top of electron, so when you download slack you're actually downloading a complete copy of Google Chrome. Chrome, at the time of writing is 15 mill
by stcredzero 8y ago
Its built on top of electron, so when you download slack you're actually downloading a complete copy of Google Chrome. Chrome, at the time of writing is 15 million non-comment lines. When you download slack, 99% of the code is 'below the water'.
And chrome is a hog. Its huge and complicated. It uses ram and CPU like nobody's business, and it totally thrashes your battery life.
I remember when Chrome was the shiny, nimbler, new kid on the block.
- Gibbon1 8y agoReminds me of a nerd friends comment about why Eclipse exists, because in the late 90's some people thought Emac's was a bloated pig.
- stcredzero 8y agoActually, Eclipse was a port of the "Visual Age" family of IDEs which started out implemented in Smalltalk. Smalltalk started out as something like Lisp, without the insanity of coding in your data representation. (Unfortunately, it means you don't have the insanely great benefits of coding in your data representation.) Emacs was actually a great way to do work over a slow modem connection back in the late 90's.