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App store uses svelte? :o
by andoando 11mo ago
App store uses svelte? :o
- zote 11mo agoApple Music uses Svelte too
- ranger_danger 11mo agoAnd the Windows 11 start menu is just React Native. Strange times indeed.
- hebelehubele 11mo agoWhat the fuck. Does that mean alternative start menus (e.g. Stardock Start11) are provably faster & lighter on resources?
- Chabsff 11mo agoNot by virtue of that alone. A choice of tech stack can never be enough to prove anything. It only establishes a lower bound on resource usage, but there is never and upper bound as long as while() and malloc() are available.
- dlivingston 11mo agoIt's pretty clear to me that JavaScript is becoming the de facto standard for UI/UX programming, regardless of platform, and regardless of web vs. native targets. Even GNOME has JavaScript bindings. [0] [0]: https://gjs.guide/ https://gjs.guide/
- andoando 11mo agoPersonally I love it. HTML/CSS is still the best, most well documented and familiar gui framework
- samdoesnothing 11mo agoHave you used other ones? Not a dig, I've primarily used HTML/CSS for UIs and have been playing around with Compose recently and haven't made up my mind what I like more.
- nish__ 11mo agoSame here. I've grown to really love Jetpack Compose. Personally, I'd say I like it better than any other framework I've tried before.
- ranger_danger 11mo agoThe problem is performance... requiring a web browser to draw a UI takes a LOT of CPU and memory, and not all devices have enough power to deliver a smooth experience across all potential workloads. I worry that every year we keep increasing our processing requirements and bloat without good reason for it. Why should every Windows release require a faster and faster CPU, and more and more RAM? The recommended amount of memory for Windows 95 was 8 megabytes, and for Windows 11 it is 8 gigabytes. Why is this not horrifying? My small Linux system with openbox GUI barely cracks 100MB memory usage in 2025.
- Rohansi 11mo ago> requiring a web browser to draw a UI takes a LOT of CPU and memory What makes a browser so much more inefficient vs. other UI frameworks? Is it really the browser's fault or the website's you're visiting?
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- 010101010101 11mo agoThis was a false rumor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44124688 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44124688
- zerr 11mo agoIt confirms that indeed React Native is used, and not React.js/WebView, in case someone got confused.
- 010101010101 11mo agoIt's used for a specific component in the start menu, it doesn't power the entire start menu.
- silverwind 11mo agoAnd MacOS Settings uses react.
- sunaookami 11mo agoOnly for the iCloud webviews, not for the whole settings app.
- theshrike79 11mo agoWaiting for the Fireship video :)