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A comment on Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k in the last 4 months. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by cjk2 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:49PM (#39993655)
Electron serves the developer not the user.

It also looks shit on every platform then.

And eats all your RAM

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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by dotinvoke on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:57PM (#39993771)
The complaint that Chrome eats all your RAM is because it starts a new process for each tab, with all the overhead that entails. You’re not using multiple tabs in an Electron app.
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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by cjk2 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @02:00PM (#39993812)
No instead I run 50 standalone browsers with one tab each on my machine ...
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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by saagarjha on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @04:15PM (#39995256)
That’s not the complaint lol
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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by ranger_danger on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:03AM (#39998276)
The overheard prevents any one tab from taking out the entire browser though.
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Re:Show HN: CompressX, my FFmpeg wrapper for macOS, made $9k... by dotinvoke on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:43AM (#40002754)
Chrome has good reason to use multiple processes, but criticism of Chrome doesn’t necessarily apply to Electron apps.
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