Re:Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe prog...
by mahkoh on Saturday January 13, 2018 @07:14PM
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This is actually a problem that will fix itself in time. Soon the customer won't be able to run your quickly shipped product because his computer is not powerful enough to run more than 5 electron apps. If we take a browser, a text editor, and chat software as a given, only two more electron apps will be able to compete for the customer's remaining resources.
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Re:Lessons for software developers from 1970s mainframe prog...
by yodon on Saturday January 13, 2018 @07:19PM
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At which point the customer blames Microsoft for making Windows too slow. The chain of events between your app and their computer’s speed is sufficiently nebulous in the mind of your customers that it’s impact on your success will objectively be zero. I get that you hate Electron apps, and I understand why, but the reality is Slack and VS Code and others have been wildly successful. You might not use them, but millions of others do, and they were fast and cheap to develop.