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OK I’ll take the bait. Were devs supposed to optimize RAM for a shortage that might come? I’m guessing you had enough foresight to stockpile RAM?
by shepherdjerred 2mo ago
OK I’ll take the bait.
Were devs supposed to optimize RAM for a shortage that might come? I’m guessing you had enough foresight to stockpile RAM?
- compiler-devel 2mo agoWhat’s implied here is that devs were supposed to optimize for user resources, not for developer convenience.
- IncreasePosts 2mo agoMaybe we can have AI rewrite those programs and optimize for low ram usage
- Cthulhu_ 2mo agoMaybe; if it's a Js / electron app there's a lower boundary though. The main issue is that the web (html/css) is the most versatile UX platform out there, nothing even comes close. You can't build most web apps' unique visual style in any other platform. Yet. Let alone have it crossplatform.
- theevilsharpie 2mo ago> You can't build most web apps' unique visual style in any other platform. Every native UI framework I've ever used allows drawing directly to a canvas, and can have literally any visual style that can be created with pixels.
- pessimizer 2mo agoThey were supposed to optimize for the situation in which they weren't the only program running on a computer, and they failed to do it.
- Pavilion2095 2mo agoCan you blame them? Users didn't care. Heck, developers didn't care - look at how popular vscode is.
- glaslong 2mo agoRevealed preferences aside, every dev comment section for 10 years HAS been full of people loudly insulting Electron.
- odo1242 2mo agoHonestly, despite being Electron VSCode manages to outspeed every other editor on my machine (by qualitative metrics), even stuff like Zed (which manages to lag on stuff VSCode doesn’t despite performance being its main selling point)
- SoleilAbsolu 2mo agoTime to bring back 32 bit OS, that way you only need 4GB RAM per computer!
- vlod 2mo ago640k ought to be enough for anybody. Sorry had to be said.