Is storage space really that big of a concern, with many multiple terabyte drives being commonplace? Out of all of the issues with electron, I don't think wasting 150MB is one of them.
Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta
by williamdclt on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:29AM
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Those are common, but small SSD are just as (if not more) common, so yes it matters.
It's also a matter of RAM, which is not as abundant as disk space
Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta
by ChristianGeek on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:53AM
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OP is talking about wasting 300MB for each Electron-based app you install.
With many of the lower-end laptops, price-wise, having ~128GB of SSD space, yes, it's a concern.
I'm not sure that would fix the problem since the common dependencies would still be having to store different versions of Chrome.
Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta
by benologist on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:08AM
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I think it worked pretty well for NPM where there was the high possibility of duplication between the modules you depend on and the additional modules required by them.
So yes, the developer gets complete control over which version of Chrome and Node is used, but you end up with a 150 MB text editor, a 150 MB chat app, and a 150 MB music streaming app, when you could probably get all three done with 152 MB using common dependencies.