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Good luck web devs (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Alt text:Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.

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[–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

VS code is an electron app, there are a few others that have a simple enough purpose that they shouldn't be using a whole dedicated chrome engine to function.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Vs code is an exemplary app and supports what I'm saying. As far as others...what's the right amount of complexity for using electron? Imo the maintenance advantages alone almost justify using it. It's not appropriate for every app but slack and vs code are pretty stellar examples of how well it can work.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    VS code is a good app in spite of using electron, not because of it. There's no reason a simple plaintext editor needs to allocate 300MB of ram even without extensions just to launch, and there is definitely no reason a plaintext editor should require compiling chromium to build from source.

    Slack is fine, but only when you exclusively use slack. Throw in an actual browser, discord, VS Code, Whatsapp, teams (?), etc. each with their own chromium instance and now your 16GB of ram are being eaten up at idle.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I mean yeah it's a little heavy. Same trade off everyone makes every time they load a web app of any kind.

    I run a lot of those apps concurrently and I don't have issues with not having enough ram.

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