Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications
by jimbokun on Friday April 24, 2026 @02:28PM
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We have failed to design a universal app engine…except for the one that dwarfs every other kind of software development for every kind of device in the world.
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Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications
by jcelerier on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:10PM
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Can a single webpage address & use more than 4gb of ram nowadays? I was filling 16gb of ram with a single Ableton live session in 2011.
Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications
by rustcleaner on Friday April 24, 2026 @04:51PM
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How about a webpage shouldn't ever address & use even 4GB of RAM! :O
Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications
by jcelerier on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:51PM
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But that's the thing, if I'm doing audio and buying 128GB of ram for the sake of doing music with my sample libraries, and loading hundreds of parallel tracks and being able to scrub through them without lags or audio clicks, I absolutely want to be able to load them to play with them.
Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications
by Gigachad on Friday April 24, 2026 @08:36PM
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Via electron I’m sure it could. In the main browser it’s probably best to cap usage to avoid having buggy pages consume everything. Anything heavy like a video editor you’d rather install as an electron app for deeper system access and such.