JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop

Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by segmondy on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:52PM (#12481951)

See the spotify client, popcorn time, visual studio code. these are javascript. They run great.

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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by rbanffy on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:33PM (#12482385)

Have you checked how much memory they use?

I know we have 8-core laptops with 16 gigs of RAM, but, still, it's excessive.

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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by segmondy on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:01AM (#12494338)

Don't have an 8 core, or 16 gigs of ram. I'm talking about my desktop. I have a 4 core i5 from 2013. Spotify has 173M in res. Visual studio code with 10 files open has 99M in res. I have firefox open with about 125 tabs open, 6 terminal windows, 2 pdf files open, VLC open but not playing, IRC in about 15 channels. Load average is 0.60. Memory load across all CPU's about 10%. 8gigs used out of 12gigs of ram. With firefox using 5.1 gigs.

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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by freyr on Monday September 12, 2016 @05:58PM (#12484040)

Any idea why the memory usage is so high? Is it related to the Electron/Chromium platform, or bad application design?

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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by rbanffy on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @04:11AM (#12486371)

Would need to check, but my bet is caching of partially rendered HTML as bitmaps, as well as a full JavaScript JIT environment.

It's just a high footprint enironment.

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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by _prototype_ on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:21PM (#12482251)

Also the Slack web client

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