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An OS with electron components is just absurd. They laid off all the competent employees who knew how to write c++.
by throwaway48476 1y ago
An OS with electron components is just absurd. They laid off all the competent employees who knew how to write c++.
- vel0city 1y agoThey've been using webview components since 1997.
- dspillett 1y agoSlapping a webview component into a native app is a lot less heavy than a full election app. A lot heavier than not at all, of course, and webview felt heavy handed back then like election for OS components feels now, I feel a lesson has not been learned…
- vel0city 1y agoEither way they're shipping an entire browser stack, and back in 1997 it was even heavier in comparison to available compute. But rose colored glasses two US to ignore that.
- dspillett 1y agoIIRC the one set of browser parts was shared around between active desktop and other OS uses, where anything Electron based has its own instance of both chromium and node.