My point is that it's much harder to write efficient code in the web ecosystem because you're bound to specific abstractions from the browser. Once deviating from said abstractions, it's not trivial to write efficient code.
Define "large". If it's bigger than the biggest text file I'll ever open, then I don't care.
My point is that "efficient" code isn't absolutely necessary in many, many cases.
We could keep going, but it maths out to mind-blowing amounts of waste just copying bytes around between buffers with no value add.
(Old man editorializing at clouds: "and all so we can employ people who don't know how computers work to satisfy corporate product pipelines by shoveling digital shit onto people that they neither want nor need")
notepad++ solved this problem 20+ years ago.
I agree it’s an uncommon use case but it’s kind of sad when an app struggles to open a file like that on a modern machine in 2024. Just sad.
I’d consider 28MB to be a medium sized file. Maybe 100MB+ would be large?