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Bloomberg did a milkround at my university about 10 years ago - showing off their new terminal. I noticed it looked like it was running on Windows with their te
by DaiPlusPlus 6y ago
Bloomberg did a milkround at my university about 10 years ago - showing off their new terminal. I noticed it looked like it was running on Windows with their terminal GUI implemented using standard Win32 hWnds and GDI painting (you can tell by how text and shapes are rendered - and how it couldn’t seem to smoothly animate above 30fps) - and the built-in newsviewer was playing a video using the Windows Media Player ActiveX control.
So if they have switched to Electron - at least that will hopefully deliver a better UX - it’s not like users are meant to run other programs on those things (I think?) so they don’t care about Chromium’s memory usage.
- apaprocki 6y agoWe very much do care about Chromium's memory usage. Chrome RAM memes exist for a reason :)
- decafninja 6y agoI don't think it was Electron or even anything based on Chromium - I could be wrong, my memory is fuzzy. But I think they said it was a custom implementation that predated Electron. Don't quote me on that though. Obviously someone that actually works there would know best. Another financial firm I interviewed at - Tradeweb, also had something similar. Custom implementation, not Electron, but in their case, yes Chromium.