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> Hearing that 2027 wont be any better makes me hopeful all the vibe coders can ask for memory efficient implementations to stretch existing hardware a little f

> Hearing that 2027 wont be any better makes me hopeful all the vibe coders can ask for memory efficient implementations to stretch existing hardware a little further. I've been thinking about this too. After being forced to work off a laptop with 6GB of RAM for a few weeks it made me appreciate my 32GB at home where I run Electron apps with abandon. It still seems crazy to me that we've normalized running an entire browser for a single program just because the UI frameworks are too hard/unfamiliar to the majority of programmers.

andrekandre 2mo ago
> just because the UI frameworks are too hard/unfamiliar i'm not sure if thats the biggest issue. working at a few large companies that had to support multiple platforms, the management was always looking for ways to deduplicate work with things like flutter, kmp etc; they just want one codebase to manage and qa because 2 or more gets to be hard for them to handle (hiring is also easier) i take it even with ai companies will still do this, whith exhibit a being the electron-based codex app from openai...