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Re:Ode to the M1 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:49AM (#37107065)
> I hope Electron/CEF die soon, and people get back to building applications that don't consume hundreds of megabytes of RAM to render a hello world.

Web technologies are fine, but what we really need is some kind of lightweight browser which allows you to use HTML/CSS/JS, but with far lower memory usage. I found https://ultralig.ht/ which seems to be exactly what I am looking for, but the license is a major turn off for most paid services. It makes sense for smaller, indie projects to adopt it, but I haven't seen many "desktop apps" using this in the wild.

Re:Chiptune.app on Saturday July 15, 2023 @08:59AM (#36736272)
Replace "Facebook and Twitter" with "Electron" and you would be right.