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Except that when I use the old apps that used to use all my RAM, now they don't because I have more RAM. I don't blame the browser vendors (except maybe that V
by jyrkesh 7y ago
Except that when I use the old apps that used to use all my RAM, now they don't because I have more RAM.
I don't blame the browser vendors (except maybe that V8 made JS juuuuuust good enough to make something like Node viable). They took a thing that run slow for everyone, and they made it faster.
I do blame application developers for writing everything to the web because it's there. There's instances of folks doing better than most in Electron/JS land, but it's still nothing close to the native or even managed Java/C# apps of yesteryear.
Really I should just link to my last Electron rant, seems like they're getting closer together nowadays... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22598148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22598148