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SurceBeats | 3 months ago

Yeah, somehow it went from don't micro optimize loops to 500MB Electron apps are just fine actually hahaha

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The latest MS Teams update on MacOS fetched an installer that asked me for 1.2GB (Yes, G!) of disk space...

xigoi|3 months ago

I recently found out that Teams was taking up over 5 GB on my laptop. The incompetence of Microsoft developers knows no bounds.

thaumasiotes|3 months ago

I recently set up a new virtual machine with xubuntu when I stopped being able to open my virtualbox image.

Turns out modern ubuntu will only install Firefox as a snap. And snap will then automatically grow to fill your entire hard drive for no good reason.

I'm not quite sure how people decided this was an approach to package management that made sense.

stared|3 months ago

I hope Tauri gets some traction (https://v2.tauri.app/). The single biggest benefit it drastically smaller build size (https://www.levminer.com/blog/tauri-vs-electron).

A 500MB Electron app can be easily a 20MB Tauri app.

brabel|3 months ago

Not sure. Tauri apps run on the browser and browsers are absolute memory horders. At any time my browser is by far the biggest culprit of abusing available memory. Just look at all the processes it starts, it’s insane and I’ve tried all popular browsers, they are all memory hogs.

bluetomcat|3 months ago

And consequently, "you need 32GB of RAM just to be future-proof for the next 3 years".