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Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron by LeoNatan25 on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:17AM (#20122900)
That's a narrow view point. You as a developer have a "beefy" desktop. What about your users? Most people in the world don't have "beefy" desktops. These days, 2GB and 4GB machines are still the norm.
Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron by arethuza on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:27AM (#20122941)
I don't expect end users to have VS Code or VS Studio and things are tested in end-user appropriate environments? I don't see what development tools and target environments have to do with each other - 'bloat' in the latter does not necessarily mean bloat in the deliverable?

Edit: I've worked with people in my career who complained about 'bloat' in C (vs assember), C++ (vs C), Unix, Emacs (vs vi), Java (vs C++)

Complaining about the latest round of tools being bloated is just what a subset of the developer community does at any moment in time (and this is not necessarily a bad thing).

Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron by LeoNatan25 on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:35AM (#20122972)
But developers do expect them to run the crapware that they "develop", such as Slack, Spotify, etc., which are often worse than VSCode. Neither should be acceptable.

> I've worked with people in my career who complained about 'bloat' in C (vs assember), C++ (vs C), Unix, Emacs (vs vi), Java (vs C++)

That's a big hyperbole.