This is in no way an endorsement for Electron, just an aspect common to all platforms that rely on an intermediate runtime that could in principle be shared.
This is in no way an endorsement for Electron, just an aspect common to all platforms that rely on an intermediate runtime that could in principle be shared.
While hard drive space is cheap on spinning drives, space on consumer devices has stagnated or even decreased with the move to ssd
But the memory one definitely is, I don't want each app to take 1GB of ram.
Here's one that doesn't suck:
Maybe that was very complicated to make, all I know is that it's blazing fast and doesn't hog memory. Or hey, take OggDrop and LameDrop, I'm sure there's programs that do the same, are 100 times as big and have 3 options. I don't know if there are 10x programmers, but I know there are 100000x programs, with not one electron app among them.
Another self-contained application I like is racket/drracket.