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Re:Windows 95 in Electron by AndrewThrowaway on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:05AM (#31894750)
Exactly this.

I have a brand new laptop and I could swear I had much more responsiveness in any other chat app 15 years ago than I have now in MS Teams.

Everything is delayed and "not immediate" while 15 years ago it was in Skype!

How much power is being wasted, CO2 generated globally because of this?

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Re:Windows 95 in Electron by speedgoose on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:07AM (#31894779)
Microsoft Teams is a disaster and its slowness is not due to Electron but Angular.
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Re:Windows 95 in Electron by AndrewThrowaway on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:10AM (#31894819)
Two crème de la crèmes of modern software.
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Re:Windows 95 in Electron by speedgoose on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:21AM (#31894953)
Not really, Angular.js is obsolete technology.
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Re:Windows 95 in Electron by EGreg on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:39AM (#31895190)
The new Angular which is based on Typescript is not
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Re:Windows 95 in Electron by papito on Monday June 27, 2022 @10:08AM (#31894802)
Computing resources were scarce, which made us better code-writers. We had to think about this. Scarcity leads to efficiency. Abundance leads to complacency.

The new generation just assumes that all database/network calls and UI plumbing is magical and free.

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