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A comment on Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight against climate change?.

Re:Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight agai... by josephcsible on Sunday August 08, 2021 @10:30PM (#28112168)
You can reduce the electricity that computers need by pushing back against the trend to use the bloated resource-hog that is Electron for every new desktop app, and writing actual native apps instead.
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Re:Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight agai... by fithisux on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:19AM (#28113255)
Ha Ha Ha !!!

Very true. Develop on a PIII with 512MB sdram and release if the software is usable.

It is true that "native" languages are slowly getting scripting characteristics. So maybe the future is "native" again (with scripting used for very specific reasons).

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