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Instead of electron we'd be bundling an entire OS with our chat apps.
by exq 4y ago
Instead of electron we'd be bundling an entire OS with our chat apps.
- rowanG077 4y agoOh we are not far away from that. Most devs consider it completely fine to run a docker instance per project.
- ilaksh 4y agoElectron basically IS an entire OS. Since Chromium has APIs for doing just about anything, including accessing the filesystem and USB devices and 500 other APIs.
- ReactiveJelly 4y agoIf _accessing_ the filesystem counts toward being an OS, and not _implementing_ the filesystem, then I guess Qt and the stdlib of every lang is also "kind of an OS"
- selfhoster11 4y agoThat's splitting hairs. Paravirtualised IO on a virtual machine doesn't make the guest OS running inside it, any less of an OS just because it has a simpler interface to the outside world than a SATA/SAS/NVMe controller.
- johnklos 4y agoThat would be nice, because many OSes are much smaller than Electron.
- randomf 4y agomany apps already have "wget docker image" as the first step