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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Small packages means more packages, and more packages compounds the dependency graph which: - makes dependency resolution harder - means more points of failure - makes auditing difficult - makes install time longer - leads to harder mainten
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
To quote the article: "Luckily, most of them are using the same version of lodash, which just needs one lodash to install inside node_modules. This is often not the case with real-world production projects. Sometimes, different package
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Yes and no. Because of the small stdlib, you need dependancies, sure. But why this idea that each dependency must be very small, forcing you to install a hundreds childs, which, themselves, will install a hundred until the pyramid of files
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Which is weird. I would have expected have the leftpad scandal that the community would have found a balance. To me, culture is a feature, and despite using JS a lot since it has a monopoly on the browser, the community culture never clicke
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Separating the IO from the rest of the program is always a good practice, that we keep rediscovering. E.G: - UI in React are trying to be just rendering functions with one input and one output. Even more so with hooks. - in python, there is
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
It's been envisioned already: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... The talk is hilarious, and very much on point.
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
This is a false dichotomy and assumes there are only two choices: - not handling the pandemic - tracking the population You can get information about people assembling in other ways: - helicopters - intel gathering - cops and army patrollin
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
The book Propaganda is good, but you can feel the naive vision of capitalism, corporation and power in general. The author seems to genuinely believe the invisible hand will balance things out, that people won't abuse their power and
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
No, it was already terrible before. But it was labelled as terrible. I was for the secret service. Now it's going to be culturally accepted, and in the hand regular administrators. This is on order or magnitude worse, for something tha
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
You don't, you have kits to do most things for you. That's the beauty of it: you can reuse the entire web community assets. And when there are no existing widgets, crafting one is way, way easier than with QT. Especially with brea
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
I tried. So. Many. Apps. Same. I always go back to using the file system: - it has a hierarchy - I can use whatever file format I want, mix in images, odt, pdf, md, etc - I can backup and sync VSCode is a pretty good editor to manage it all
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
> How are you handling it? What do you mean?
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
This implies you dev in C or C++, and do all the controls, lifecycle and fallbacks yourself. That a huge price.
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Yes and no. Yes if people used it, but no because people would probably not. One of the reason electron is so easy to package: it creates a big blog of statically linked everything. If you start having to play the packaging game correctly,
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Any previous solution to do UI: QT, GTK, WX, etc were cross plateforms. I don't think that's it. Electron make it easy, if you know front end dev, to do an app. It's easy to package as well. I don't know if you tried to
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Funny thing is, 2 years ago I had a machine with 32gb, and I never passed 16 even while willingly opening everything just for fun. I though it was too much, and downgraded for a small, cheaper and more portable machine. Today, I think 32 wo
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Given they didn't have the warning we had, and have a very dense population and hold the manufactures of the entire world, it could have been much worse. I can't imagine what would have happened if patient zero had been in new yor
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
That's my point. Ripcord is not built using electron, yet provide the same features as the original slack app.
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
MS does that pretty well with VSCode I think. It doesn't seem to be the default experience though.
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Sure, and you don't have to use a more modern car, you can always keep your old phones for 10 years. But you would be very annoyed if when you upgrade, you'd notice the car actually eats more gas. That's not what happens thou
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
MS probably knows. VSCode without any extension is pretty reactive and light. It becomes heavy when you have 20 tabs open with linters, languages servers, formatters and so on. So maybe we CAN make electron lighter.
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
I though about it, as a workaround. But realistically: - my base ram consumption is 2Gb, so it would make 5gb with the VM, giving me 3gb for: firefox, and IDE, thunderbird, telegram, stremio, libreoffice, nautilus, veracrypt, liferea, gnome
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
It's a excellent software for managing things to do, and I pay monthly for it. It is very efficient to use, works offline and on mobile seamlessly, use a JSON format for storage, and can export in a standard format to avoid locking (ev
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Half of the softwares installed on my computer would not run because of those good security measures. The browser let you do CRUD apps, with a hint of medias handling. That's it. And not even good ones since your storage can be wiped
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
The WebRTC stack depends on: - the network code - the video and audio playing code - the video and audio capture code - the crypto code Making that generic is a huge task nobody will every do. So since you embed them, why no elso embed the
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
PWA are very limited: - can't (realistically) use an alternative runtime. You are stuck with the JS ecosystem. - can't start when the OS starts - can't integrate with the UI (task bar, explorer menu, etc) - can't run a s
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
My bad: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/tree/dev/Telegra... I'll edit
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
Yeah, why having a multitask OS when you can do the scheduler job manually?
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
> Plenty of native desktop/mobile apps do video/audio/text without embedding a browser. Yes and it's a pain to do: format is limited, packaging is hard, ability to manipulate/embed the video is annoying. In fact,
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by BiteCode_dev 7y ago
I just discovered that there are so many of those. Here is a list supported by asciidoctor as an extension: https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoctor-diagram/ Mairmaid looks nice

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