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Like? My personal experience is that general productivity apps, even office suites haven't changed that much over 30 years, but their system requirements keep
by oliwarner 3y ago
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My personal experience is that general productivity apps, even office suites haven't changed that much over 30 years, but their system requirements keep jumping.
If you can identify differences between then and now, how many of those aren't bloat?
- Gigachad 3y agoWe now expect instant messaging apps to support: * Video and voice calls, including group calls * Inline images and video * Screen sharing * Clients on every OS and the web browser, they should all look pretty much exactly the same and be updated at the same time * and a whole bunch of other random stuff like in app image editing, payment processing, etc I'd say the biggest hit to memory usage and performance is just all the inline images and videos. IRC may have been super lightweight and fast, but people expect more of programs now. Electron/web tech was also pretty heavy, but releasing a native Windows app and maybe later a half done MacOS version is no longer acceptable. You _have_ to support windows, mac, linux, android, ios, and web. All of these versions _must_ have the full feature set and look the same.
- kazinator 3y agoSkype had group video calls, screen sharing and instant messaging almost twenty years ago. It ran fine on the machines of that time. It had good UI for all these things.