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Taking something as lightweight as an lsof command line tool and putting an entire web browser and node.js instance on top seems like we are moving in the wrong
by lawnchair_larry 8y ago
Taking something as lightweight as an lsof command line tool and putting an entire web browser and node.js instance on top seems like we are moving in the wrong direction. It’s like we are going to need a terabyte of RAM and a Tesla battery to run basic apps of the future with even half of the performance we got out of our systems 2 decades previously.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoIt’d be like building a factory around a music box.
- joppy 8y agoI'm not sure that I would call something with about 40 screens of man pages "lightweight".
- yakshaving_jgt 8y agoThe size of the program’s man page doesn’t impact the performance characteristics of the program, does it?
- joppy 8y agoNo, but "lightweight" doesn't necessarily mean performant. The size of the program's man page might be the thing that makes people want a different, more discoverable interface to the program.
- canadaduane 8y agoI feel like this argument is the software engineer's version of "smaller government" political ideology. Yes, we want small, fast processes. Yes, we want efficiency. But we want efficiency _for the sake of usability_. For the Linux user, Sloth is (nearly) useless. Electron would have provided great value (at the cost of and under the burden of larger hardware, etc.) Complexity and resource usage creep isn't going away, although I applaud efforts to reduce complexity and use resources parsimoniously.
- webninja 8y agoWhat are better starting points? QT?
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoYes