• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    Does this mean app devs will finally stop using electron and related to build the world’s least efficient UI?

    I can always hope!

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      23 hours ago

      You will enjoy your 20 MiB react next.js chromium dompurify leftpad 400ms ITNP lazy loaded 50 external server website. This is not a request

    • CubitOom@infosec.pub
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      1 day ago

      No, it means they will use LLMs (AGI™) to rewrite new electron apps from the ground up with exciting new breaking changes each release. You will have to schedule hardware updates at a yearly bases if you want to make use of your software subscription. Luckily, they will offer a hardware subscription which only costs twice as much as it should, it will come with insurance which will never be redeemable for the low cost of $30 a month.

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      24 hours ago

      This is my hope. There are so many cross-platform GUI toolkits out there that are orders of magnitude more efficient than electron and nobody uses them. It’s not like GTK and Qt are difficult to learn. In fact, I find them easier to wrap my head around than a lot of the JS nonsense out there.

      • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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        23 hours ago

        I have bad memories of apps built in qt but that was decades ago, and my objection is visual.

        JavaScript, despite any popularity, is a trash language for an application that runs outside of a browser

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          22 hours ago

          I suspect that your visual objection may be similar to mine, but over the past several years of being subjected to electron trash, using apps written in Qt kind of reminds me now of a simpler time. Nostalgia is a powerful drug, isn’t it?

          That all being said, I do find myself preferring the look of GTK apps lately, in spite of the rather controversial direction their design has taken.