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"Consider minimalist browsers like Min ..."

Oh! Exciting!

I dutifully went to check out the Min browser web page. "Oh shit, it's another Electron app". Noped it out of there.

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cosmojg|5 years ago

Moving to Min from Chrome is certainly moving in the right direction, though. After all, Electron is just a stripped-down version of Chromium, and thus quite a bit more minimal by default.

mr_custard|5 years ago

Electron contains the Chromium browser code, yes. But you still have to render to that browser.

Electron also contains a back-end Node.js process and a bunch of related JS APIs for building and hosting these apps.

Anyway, I accept your point that I'd be replacing a browser with... well a browser and some other stuff.

The problem though is the proliferation of Electron apps everywhere... suddenly your OS is full of these things and you don't get the memory management benefits of running just one Chrome or Chromium. Each app having its own copy of Chromium and Node.js merrily consuming CPU and RAM like they're the only ones doing it.

Signal, GitHub, Slack, VS Code, Skype, Notion, Tusk, WhatsApp etc. It's a cancer, I tell ya!

Ughh. And We're not even talking about the security issues here.

Sigh. I'm going out now, to buy more RAM.