Andy
hot take: Electron apps would be half as bad if the runtime was shared instead of being shipped for every single application. It at least would get sizes down to a few handfuls of megabytes instead of several hundred per application. (I know the technicalities of some programs using forks/etc. but this is a "would be" post anyway) 6 comments
Leah :neocat_blush_hide:
@freeplay@wetdry.world @pixel@desu.social that explains why my tests failed lool
Leah :neocat_blush_hide:
@pixel@desu.social I think Tauri does this 
argv minus one
Wouldn't do a thing for CPU load or memory usage. You're still running a full-fledged multi-process browser for each such app.
Andy
@argv_minus_one that's true, but that's why I said "half as bad" the size argument is not everything, but it's one of the arguments on why it's bad. the performance overhead of spawning what's basically a bunch of browser processes sucks indeed.  |
Gregory's Server
@pixel desktop webapps would've been nice, sad firefox doesn't officially support them :neofox_flop: