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> their usage is strongly correlated with cost-saving measures and the questionable technical decisions that result since choosing a web app itself is often a c
by brundolf 4y ago
> their usage is strongly correlated with cost-saving measures and the questionable technical decisions that result since choosing a web app itself is often a cost-saving measure
Correlation is not causation
We can debate the specific design choices that Spotify or any other company has made, but my original point was to push back against the tired trope that using web technologies for an app automatically means runaway resource consumption and (apparently) the downfall of civilization
- ideologysec 4y agoExcept in this case, correlation is so strongly correlated with causation that it becomes causation. Look, the plural of anecdotes is not data, but you can't argue against the general trend of "applications using web frameworks like Electron tend to consume more RAM" by saying "well in this specific case they made poor design decisions that would bite anyone in the ass"; while that may be true it misses the point, which is the much larger (and well-correlated) & overarching tendency of such apps to absolutely chew RAM. That it's a "tired trope" doesn't make it untrue; it just means that enough people have accepted what is functionally the new state of the software application world that it's considered passé to call such things out.