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Complexity has to play a role, google chrome has more LOC than windows XP... At this point everything is a pile of piles of shit built on top of a gigantic pile of shit.

Today I ran out of ram, the "teams" desktop app was taking 2 gigs just standing there doing nothing, you can run four whole windows Xp on the same amount of ram, comfortably. My inactive chatgpt chrome tab alone was taking 900mb

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I wouldn’t call Chrome a pile of shit software. If anything else we should learn from this project

And the web is the most advanced and open OS in the world. That all those features can be packaged into a 100MB binary is magic

Real. The Chrome rendering stack is such an inspiration for how to do high performance GUIs on multiple operating systems.

> how to do high performance GUIs on multiple operating systems.

By being a poorly-behaved process until you are caught red-handed.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/07/why-google-took-year...

Did you mention this as some sort of gotcha? This article is over 12 years old.

Chrome has gone through almost two rewrites of their core rendering stack since then. It's impressive work.

Although this itself is outdated, I remember enjoying "Life of a Pixel"[0] back when it came out.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-J-tbAlFic

I try to do more and more in the terminal, but even that isn’t immune to the same syndrome, programs tying up tons of threads and memory, terminal emulators themselves being GPU accelerated and performance intensive. Perhaps we will see a cultural hard fork and a trend towards small, simple, utilitarian programs in personal computing; if the price of basic components continues its upward trend, it may even be necessary. Devices that are purposefully limited, hacked, owned, customised, privvy to closed networks that follow the same philosophies.

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