Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?
by sirjaz on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:04PM
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But the performance is worse. I point out the example of a small spreadsheet. Open it in Google sheets, and you are using 1/2 gigs+ in ram plus heavy cpu. Open it in a desktop app maybe you will use 20 to 30 mb of ram, and low cpu usage.
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?
by ghaff on Thursday March 24, 2022 @02:49PM
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But many of us are not very heavyweight docs/slides/sheets users. For 95%+ of what I do just having a web experience on a browser that’s just a login away is an infinitely better experience than the old desktop days.
In general there’s plenty of performance to go around. For many things I don’t see a big difference between an M1 Pro MacBook and 6 yo machines.
Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?
by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:04PM
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> the performance is worse. I point out the example of a small spreadsheet. Open it in Google sheets, and you are using 1/2 gigs+ in ram plus heavy cpu. Open it in a desktop app maybe you will use 20 to 30 mb of ram, and low cpu usage.
Performance, measured in human units--e.g. time to load, refresh, et cetera--is fine. That's what ultimately matters. The customers are the humans. Not the machines.
If my laptop is connected to the Internet, it's fast. That isn't as universally true on mobile. (Desktops are also more reliably connected to the internet when on.)