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Those cycles enable much higher level operations. Still tons of wasted effort, but hopefully development time for the same complexity is significantly reduced.
by gibolt 7y ago
Those cycles enable much higher level operations. Still tons of wasted effort, but hopefully development time for the same complexity is significantly reduced.
- pjmlp 7y agoYeah like Electron based apps, sigh.
- soylentgraham 7y agoI think you just proved the point. If we didn't have this high level, easy-to-produce abstraction... you wouldn't have even heard of slack and electron. Yet it enabled people to create something a lot of people use :)
- tambourine_man 7y agoThere were many (and much better IMO) instant message multiplatform apps before Electron. The problem isn’t JavaScript, which these days is remarkably fast. It’s that every app loads almost an entire OS in order to run. Process isolation, layout engine, text rendering, 2D/3D graphics, audio…
- pjmlp 7y agoThere are plenty of Electron alternatives, without the bloat of carrying a browser around. Those people would also be enabled if they bothered to get out of the Web comfort zone and actually learn about them.
- philipov 7y agooptimizing the high level operations would be a sweet application for machine learning, don't you think?