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I'm skeptical - the apps I use either have a) enough lock-in that they don't have the institutional will to optimize or b) a lack of institutional resources to
by Marsymars 6mo ago
I'm skeptical - the apps I use either have a) enough lock-in that they don't have the institutional will to optimize or b) a lack of institutional resources to optimize.
Basically, the optimizing that can happen is that I ditch heavy tools in favour of lighter ones, and hopefully enough other people do the same to help lighter tools with finances/dev resources.
- joquarky 6mo agoThat lock-in is going to have to be very deep to fend off reverse engineered clones.
- Marsymars 6mo agoYeah, I mean, if I look at the trashy apps I currently have running, they all do have deep lock-in that makes the reverse-engineered clones impractical or impossible: Teams, Discord, Slack, the Windows RDP app. If I look at the Activity Manager in macOS, of apps that are less trashy but currently taking up a lot of memory, they mostly aren't apps that I'm willing/able to move away from to save on resource use: Firefox, Safari, 1Password. (For browsers, you can blame poorly optimized websites for a lot of it, but I just don't see anyone rushing to create lightweight clones of websites in order to save users' RAM.)