Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by ClikeX on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:45AM (#23220751)

As a younger developer I'd say I agree. But it's not just developers being used to resources being plentiful.

I do webdev mostly and there it's also a matter of management. I want to optimize applications to be less hungry, those are interesting challenges to me. But I've been told by management to just upgrade the server. Either I'd spend a day optimizing, and maybe fixing the issue. Or we just spend 50 euros a month more on a server.

Sometimes the optimization is not worth the effort. For applications like Blender? Optimization means a lot.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by TeMPOraL on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:09AM (#23221827)

> Either I'd spend a day optimizing, and maybe fixing the issue. Or we just spend 50 euros a month more on a server.

So, discounting additional effects like more satisfied userbase, the optimization would pay for itself in a year. And optimizations stack.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by ClikeX on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:49AM (#23334621)

Yes, that was my thought process as well. But management didn't agree. To them, the short term cost of me optimizing the problem was higher than the long term costs would be.

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