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Re:Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night by shawnz on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @08:27AM (#17867672)
What layers of abstraction are we stacking? Sure, there's electron/v8, but that's just one layer. You said yourself that notepad in an electron-based x86 VM is still pretty small, so clearly electron itself isnt the problem.

Maybe people just demand more from their software these days, and all these little conveniences just add up more than you'd realize? That would also explain why the system is not "doomed in the eyes of many" as you claim it ought to be.

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Re:Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night by rayiner on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @10:25AM (#17868415)
What conveniences? Most web apps (e.g. Google Docs) have less functionality than their Win95 counterparts, notwithstanding the stupendous amounts of added bloat.
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Re:Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night by belark on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:29AM (#17868044)
A lot of the conveniences of the modern computing landscape are anything but.

Laggy response times in aforementioned text editors, frivolous UI animations on certain OSs, terrible web apps like JIRA...

The complexity doesn't necessarily mean better software. It's quite often worse along many dimensions: performance, usability, maintainability, portability.

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