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Re:Winamp Skin Museum by potta_coffee on Friday September 04, 2020 @01:12PM (#24376826)
It just runs contrary to a lot of people's ideals for software. I don't spend my time thinking about Electron much but I don't care for it either. I guess it just rankles that it's really the easiest cross-platform solution we have.
Re:Winamp Skin Museum by bluedays on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:20PM (#24379906)
Just feels like a cheap way to get Internet karma to compare old apps to modern apps made with Electron.
Re:Winamp Skin Museum by mosselman on Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:08PM (#24386507)
So it’s cheap to say that old-Winamp does the same with let’s say 1-10% of the resources that a remake in electron does? How so? Isn’t it interesting from a historical perspective? Can’t we learn from history? If anything history could be an anchor point for where we can go back to or it can tell us that if we just try harder we can achieve more. How is that cheap? If anything it is powerful to keep reminding ourselves that we can do better as an industry and that we shouldn’t settle for mediocrity.
Re:Winamp Skin Museum by bluedays on Monday September 07, 2020 @09:51PM (#24404541)
It's interesting until you see the 10th comment comparing some old software against Electron. Then it comes meme-y.