Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju...
by ip26 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:43PM
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Not a front end developer but I’ve always assumed it was ROI - nobody felt a smaller memory footprint would drive enough incremental revenue to offset the costs.
What seems to have changed is the size of the costs - LLMs are really good at this - such that you can now say “well, maybe the returns aren’t that big, in fact maybe they’re zero, but this is easy enough, so why not”
De minimus improvement has always suffered this problem - we’re all fairly sure it’s worth something, but not enough to pursue when it’s not cheap to fix.
What seems to have changed is the size of the costs - LLMs are really good at this - such that you can now say “well, maybe the returns aren’t that big, in fact maybe they’re zero, but this is easy enough, so why not”
De minimus improvement has always suffered this problem - we’re all fairly sure it’s worth something, but not enough to pursue when it’s not cheap to fix.