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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by nojvek on Saturday December 08, 2018 @12:02PM (#18636146)
JavaScript isn’t that slow and bloated, the browser rendering engine is a memory hog and cause of most pain. Electron is the big offender because it’s a copy of a new browser everytime.

We have TypedArrays, WebAssembly, very smart JITs. With Typescript, JavaScript is a very productive and sane language to work with.

I 100% agree with you that the current state of desktop apps are extremely bloated.

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Re:Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you re... by eitland on Saturday December 08, 2018 @02:22PM (#18636994)
> With Typescript, JavaScript is a very productive and sane language to work with.

Mostly agree with your comment on the broader point that front-end (coding) is a lot saner than it used to be. This sentence however sounds to me like "With C, assembler is a very productive and sane language to work with." (FTR: I used to enjoy assembler.)

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