Re:Electron 4.0.0
by goldfeld on Friday December 21, 2018 @12:04PM
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I use some old laptops, the light one I'm using now (good for python dev) has 2GB. The reasonable option (bulky, heats up) has 4GB, the dev rig which I'm not using because age defects are showing up has 6GB. I don't use Chrome because my proliferation of tabs locks it up. Firefox manages fine (must have over 600 tabs open but FF loads just the current tabstrip bufferized segment.) Technology should be efficient in bad conditions.
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I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect modern software to perform on hardware that’s 5+ years old. The standard ram for midrange laptops now is what, 8gb? At some point you just have to upgrade.
> I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect modern software to perform on hardware that’s 5+ years old.
Why not? If the hardware still works fine, unless we're doing something intrinsically more complex, i don't see a reason why it shouldn't work :S
Because it holds back innovations, which is what we’re talking about.
It's one thing when more resources allows you to do something that was not possible without them and entirely different thing when you need to throw gigabytes and gigahertz at programs offering less (because minimalism!!!1111!1).
What innovations Electron brings to the table? That web devs can now not only bloat websites but also desktop apps?
More resources should mean that I can do things that were not possible before, or that I can do more things at the same time and not that I can do less because someone is to lazy to learn something new.
You can tell when the average viewer of this site learned to program by how irrationally clingy they are to things like the concept of memory management.
It used to matter a lot more, when those people were learning, so now it has to still matter!!!111oneoneeleven
I'm sure those people are laughing at new grad's chugging Atom/VS Codes while they vim away in cultivated peace.
Wow, this grandiose "modern software" must be making people's morning coffee and eating their lunch to boot then!
One day I'm sure we'll all have our own robot butlers, but right now it's mainly just allowing software to be made faster and cheaper.
Laptops cheaper than $500 come with 8GB of RAM.
So what?
If apps use more ram/cpu it means that I can use less of them.