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The silver lining is that hopefully it’ll become too expensive to ship new Electron apps

• tombert 11mo ago
  RAM has been cheap long enough and now no one remembers how to write efficient GUI apps. I'm joking, but only kind of. It's not a domain that I do a lot of, but I haven't touched Qt in so long that it would basically be starting from scratch if I tried to write an app with it; I could write an Election app in like an hour.
  • tonymet 11mo ago
    You can learn how to build a gui in Xcode or Visual Studio in a few hours
• Narishma 11mo ago
  You have too much faith in the software industry.
  • dysoco 11mo ago
    This. Users and developers will just get accustomed to 2s delays everywhere. The era of native software is long gone.
    • tonymet 11mo ago
      There are still snobs / autists like me who notice
• kasabali 11mo ago
  Why do you think developers would care if it's expensive to users?
  • tonymet 11mo ago
    There was a time