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Re:Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player fo... by surganov on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:35PM (#48187355)
We tried to keep it as lean as possible. MacOS itself adds quite a bit, and then there are libraries for format decoding, audio streaming, VST support, etc. Could it be smaller? Probably – but not by an order of magnitude.
Re:Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player fo... by taffydavid on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:29AM (#48190355)
26Mb sounds perfectly reasonable. Electron apps are usually 100+, and we live in a world where apps download gigabytes of LLMs in the background to do very basic stuff.

Wait, it doesn't do that does it?