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Because it’s too complex and not worth the effort. Most users will not care about or perceive the benefit. If they delegate that responsibility to Google via El
by piker 29d ago
Because it’s too complex and not worth the effort. Most users will not care about or perceive the benefit. If they delegate that responsibility to Google via Electron, they can focus on features/bug fixes that move the needle.
- yoz-y 29d agoWhat effort ? I’ve started seeing this attitude more and more. We had a thing that took a week to do before. Now it takes a morning. So we refuse to spend half a day polishing it because it’s too annoying. Once the initial port is done, keeping platforms in sync is fast. Not to mention that a harness that would automate this would be valuable. I run codex on an old rpi, it eats 190M of ram for what essentially is a telnet client.
- piker 29d agoYou're mistaken if you think it has ever taken a week to port (and support) an application to native primitives.
- simianwords 29d ago?? Bun rewrite?
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- pydry 29d agoThis isnt how a company which has "solved programming" would act. Especially since users do prefer a native experience and having their RAM conserved.
- raincole 29d agoThis is exactly how a company would act when they notice millions of people downloading and using their ram-hungry electron app. There is just no reason to not act this way.
- weiran 29d agoAlso the part people forget is the significant coordination cost of having multiple teams work on multiple native codebases. I hate Electron apps with a passion, but I can understand why the AI companies are using it.