Re:Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully prog...
by RetroTechie on Sunday August 06, 2023 @09:36PM
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> bloat means a massive decrease in the cost and time taken to develop software.
In the past, programmers bit-banged I/O bare metal, and hardware tinkerers soldered computers from TTL IC's.
Today, programmers code in Python & glue software libraries together. Hardware folks wire CPU-powered peripherals onto creditcard sized supercomputers.
Same concept. Only the building blocks have increased in their (internal) complexity.
Re:Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully prog...
by mufti_menk on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:06PM
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I agree, there's no point being mad at it since there's good reasons why it ended up this way
True but that's looking at it from only a technical POV. The market clearly doesn't care about some extra latency, and in return bloat means a massive decrease in the cost and time taken to develop software. Electron allows a company to use a single team of web devs (most common skillset, cheaper labor pool) cross-platform, why would they give that up for better performance? The bloat will keep piling as long as that's the case.