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The success of Electron tells us that memory usage concerns are overblown. Memory is seriously dirty cheap nowadays. Time to spend a bit more to simplify the ec
by quotemstr 2y ago
The success of Electron tells us that memory usage concerns are overblown. Memory is seriously dirty cheap nowadays. Time to spend a bit more to simplify the ecosystem.
- saagarjha 2y agoOk, first of all, what is going to ship is not just Electron but a whole VM plus Electron. Just like how people run the JVM in Docker or whatever, because nobody trusts any layer of their stack to actually be abstracted enough that they can feel comfortable with what is underneath. That’s going to be truly awful. Second, the “success” of Electron is like the “success” of online advertising. Nobody really likes it and it’s basically a local optimum in a deep pit that it’s unfortunate we’re stuck in. It’s just that economic pressures have pushed the market to this being something people tolerate rather than actively desire.
- hollerith 2y agoI consider it a little perverse to say "simplify" and Electron in one sentence. But my main point is that memory requires power so adding memory to a machine shortens battery life (or increases weight due to larger battery). So far AFAIK no laptop maker has made a laptop that can power off half the RAM to decrease demand on the battery when only half the RAM is needed. (Also, I do not like apps built on Electron and do not use any.)