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To be fair, Zoom is the only modern conferencing software that actually has a native client instead of Electron garbage. Back in the day many services had beau
by Nextgrid 4y ago
To be fair, Zoom is the only modern conferencing software that actually has a native client instead of Electron garbage.
Back in the day many services had beautiful native clients (MSN/Windows Live, Skype pre-Microsoft, etc) that successfully delivered videoconferencing on single-core CPUs and sub-gigabyte RAM capacities but clearly it was worth sacrificing all that just to give Javascript developers a career.
Nowadays few companies besides Zoom seem to be able to replicate this experience despite processing power being more than double (not that Zoom is perfect, but it's the least bad).
- tadfisher 4y agoZoom's native client uses Qt WebEngine, so not Electron garbage but still Blink garbage.