Skype, Slack and WhatsApp are using 250MB each on my machine to do something that was already possible on my 64MB RAM machine 20 years ago. And on top of that t

Skype, Slack and WhatsApp are using 250MB each on my machine to do something that was already possible on my 64MB RAM machine 20 years ago. And on top of that they're running one of the easiest hackable runtimes ever. Sure it's fun to mess a bit with a website and remove nag screens here and there but for an application that is expected to have a trusted encryption system it's just ridiculous. I hope the pendulum swings back again and we'll see companies start to use cross-platform Rust libraries in some kind of way. I can't imagine you can't reuse 80% of the code that powers those applications in any other way than using some kind of Javascript engine. And perhaps we can just compile it to web using webassembly?