Hacker News Reader

How can starting a browser be a best practice? This app is lightweight and does not even use a GUI toolkit. You would roughly use 20x more memory. How is that a best practice?

View on HN

Using sarcasm. Sarcasm that you missed.

I stopped reading the rest. I just saw Electron is mentioned. Some people honestly think that is a good approach.

Well, it is extremely portable. Just also all the other things you mentioned.

Both Windows and macOS have X servers. Heck don’t they both ship with them nowadays?

not really that portable?

No, not rest API, electron.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com