oceanswave

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by oceanswave 10y ago
https://slack.com/jobs/69902/desktop-application-engineer "The Slack Desktop apps are built using diverse technologies such as Electron, node.js, ES6, RxJS, C#, and Objective-C,"
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by oceanswave 10y ago
Spoken like a true assembly programmer.
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by oceanswave 10y ago
I get this in Visual Studio and occasionally in WebStorm too. C++ and Intellij-based Java apps. Not the only one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19617670/why-vs-2013-is-v... http://stackoverflow.com
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by oceanswave 10y ago
not sure where the red herring came from. VS Code uses less system resources than a blank excel document for me. Opening up another tab in a browser can spawn another browser process, which is done for isolation. Same example, 142MB is the
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by oceanswave 10y ago
And this is only one example, there's NW.JS too, and Coherent Labs and Awesomium.. not to mention UWP apps... plus look at all the apps that leverage some sort of extensibility through JavaScript (Looking at you Creative Cloud and Offi
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by oceanswave 10y ago
I've also got Outlook open, so that's at least 25.
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by oceanswave 10y ago
Source? VS Code is taking up 26/86mb of memory and weighs in at 143mb on disk... not really the most CPU intensive program either
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by oceanswave 10y ago
Using a similar technique, you could use http://coherent-labs.com/dotnet-browser-controls/ but you'll also pay out the nose for it.
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by oceanswave 10y ago
Oh really? * Excel alone uses 86.1MB of private memory, and 142MB on a Blank Workbook. * Where did you get this 100MB metric? VS Code uses 24MB Private, 86MB shared and I've got a ton of extensions added. * No, most electron apps a
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by oceanswave 10y ago
The red herring in the original comment is that Electron apps can't be multithreaded. They absolutely can be - through web workers, child processes and more. They can also fall back to calling native components for CPU intensive tasks.
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by oceanswave 10y ago
Nothing precludes an Electron app from being multithreaded (though WebWorkers, child processes and more) or relying on native components to improve CPU intensive tasks. If someone is wanting to release a shitty application, they're goi
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by oceanswave 10y ago
IRT Battery life concerns - Electron utilizes OS based power management and will auto-sleep the app. What other battery life concerns do you have that are automatically solved by another framework?
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by oceanswave 10y ago
Not following that last statement. There's no guarantee if I build my desktop application with XYZ framework that some technological limitation will crop up with it. How much emphasis is being placed on JavaFX/Swing/AWT these
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by oceanswave 10y ago
generally Chrome and IE/Edge spawn separate processes per tab for isolation, but will sometimes group them based on some conditions. On the flipside I'd hate to have some 3rd party program bring down my browser. So I get what you&
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by oceanswave 10y ago
so use the more common for(let v of list) { console.log("foo"); } If you're saying that "initialize an array with a defined length" should be "initialize an empty array of 5 values of undefined" then yeah,
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by oceanswave 10y ago
"they require more resources to run, thus making your computer slower, a laptops battery last less on a single charge," But yet you used a either a browser or the HN mobile app (cordova) to post here... guess that means function &
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by oceanswave 10y ago
Here's the thing: What's the #1 application that people use today on their desktops? Browsers. There's a really high chance that you had another browser process open that was dedicated to writing your comment. Mobile included
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by oceanswave 10y ago
The unique problem you mention I think is vocal commenters that see "JavaScript" and immediately take a one-sided mentality against any tech stack that uses it.
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by oceanswave 10y ago
Pssst. TypeScript is JavaScript.
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by oceanswave 10y ago
And the source is closed, only the binaries are available :/
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by oceanswave 11y ago
Just shows that the FBI can't keep their own secrets, not to speak of keeping anyone else's.
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by oceanswave 11y ago
Somehow I can rant about any topic on the internet, but so long as the topic includes a dissenting opinion about javascript, it will be upvoted.
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by oceanswave 11y ago
Exactly this.
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Tips and Tricks for Building JavaScript Apps in SharePoint(rdacorp.com)
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