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> could it rescue Java Client development? No because the industry is slowly moving away from the long fashionably hated language. Tech centric people love to
by pipeline_peak 5y ago
> could it rescue Java Client development?
No because the industry is slowly moving away from the long fashionably hated language.
Tech centric people love to complain about Electron being bloated, the same way they do about anything that doesn't run on their 4gb memory Linux hobby machine.
In the actual non HN user world, on modern desktops, average users don't really care about these things unless they notice them. Electron will keep getting by, as it should because browser based development is the future.
- nijave 5y ago>users don't really care about these things I think they do implicitly. Employees definitely care when their 5 year old mid/low-end machine slows to a crawl because each chat & business app takes 600mb+ of their precious 8GB of RAM. It'd probably help if Electron was "dynamically linked" instead of each app vendoring their own version
- pipeline_peak 5y agoI think as these things become more noticeable, the Electron team will make more active attempts to share resources amongst Electron "sessions". But this whole thing rides on the back of Chromium, and I have a feeling they aren't as communicative as the NodeJS and V8 developers are. Hopefully I'm wrong and in the future Blink will be more optimized for Electron.