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DNA developers these days just use electron and don’t care about efficiency. That lungfish is ripe for a refactoring. Bet I could implement a new lungfish with
by scrollaway 5y ago
DNA developers these days just use electron and don’t care about efficiency. That lungfish is ripe for a refactoring.
Bet I could implement a new lungfish with only a few million base pairs in a weekend.
- flobosg 5y ago640 kbp should be enough for anybody.
- yellowcake0 5y agoIs electron some sort of synthetic genome compiler?
- ComputerGuru 5y agoIt’s a (not well executed) joke about electron’s memory consumption and how developers refuse to use anything better.
- Zababa 5y agoI think the joke may be about binary size and not memory, which would make sense when talking about DNA.
- scrollaway 5y ago> not well executed Aw! :( For the record I like Electron a lot and am usually the one to defend it on HN, but it indeed was a comment on binary size, needless duplication and copy-paste culture ;)
- richeyryan 5y agoTo be specific, it is Javascript based desktop application platform. Each finished app ships its own version of Chrome which affects the size and arguably adds quite a lot of overhead. It also makes developing cross-platform desktop applications much more accessible, thus making it easier for more developers to make slow, unoptimized applications. Overall it has become a meme for bulky, slow desktop apps with Visual Studio Code being the notable exception.