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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by Piskvorrr on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:15AM (#23220538)
I also went from 8GB to 16GB recently (virtual machines are hungry); but I had gotten rid of Slack even before that. I mean, yes, it has round edges and goes ping and has all those cutesy animations - but 2GB of RAM for a glorified IRC client, excuse me, what exactly is it doing with billions of bytes worth of memory? ("Don't know, don't care" seems to be its developers' mantra)
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by neutronicus on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:38AM (#23221099)
The answer is JIT'ing JS.

For each of your Electron apps there is a little compiler chugging away.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by theandrewbailey on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:40AM (#23221566)
Back in the day, we didn't have 2GB of RAM total, much less just for a compiler!
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