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Re:I can't stand developing for Safari anymore by forgotpwd16 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:06AM (#27601635)
Many mobile apps just exist to browse a certain web site (HN, Reddit, etc) at which point making a native app makes little sense if you're just copying the design of a site. This also extends to desktop (Spotify, Steam, etc). The problem with Electron (or CEF or QtWeb*) is that it's running an independent rendering engine adding a significant overhead. If you're already running a browser even complex web apps such as a WebGL sculpter[0] add a minimum usage on the session. Of course there's the problem of persistently running a web browser which may lead to high energy consumption.

[0]: https://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/

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Re:I can't stand developing for Safari anymore by caslon on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:32AM (#27601815)
Link to a post in this thread that I wrote partially as a response to yours but don't want to duplicate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27601802

On a whim, I also opened the front page of reddit (again, in my web browser that's already opened) and the tab is taking 140MB fresh.

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Re:I can't stand developing for Safari anymore by forgotpwd16 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:46AM (#27601897)
Is this page resource usage on the browser or the total? Else, you used the browser's (about:performance in Firefox) or you system's task manager to get this figure? If the later, that is exactly what I meant with engine overhead. You should consider that initial figure shared among tabs/apps.
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Re:I can't stand developing for Safari anymore by caslon on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:55AM (#27601961)
I used about:performance; I'm not stupid. Is there no expectation of good faith here?
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Re:I can't stand developing for Safari anymore by forgotpwd16 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:00AM (#27601997)
Strange. It shows only 1.7MB on FF 89.0 (Linux, x64). That's why I thought you're checking the total memory. Then again the total in there is far smaller than what the system usage is, so this manager is unreliable.
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Re:I can't stand developing for Safari anymore by Jcowell on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:02AM (#27602011)
I know we don’t do this here but this made me chuckle. Favoriting this.
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