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minus-squareEngineerGaming@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoI can appreciate the functionality, but cannot really call an application “good” if it eats up more than half a gigabyte of RAM while being something as simple as a messenger.
minus-squareBalder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoAlso there are better solutions if you want to have your UI in HTML nowadays. You don’t need to embed a whole web browser in each app.
minus-squareEngineerGaming@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoWhich ones, for example?
minus-squareBalder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoSomething like tauri does, by using the OS web engine, so the apps can be a few KB (depending on the code of course).
I can appreciate the functionality, but cannot really call an application “good” if it eats up more than half a gigabyte of RAM while being something as simple as a messenger.
Also there are better solutions if you want to have your UI in HTML nowadays. You don’t need to embed a whole web browser in each app.
Which ones, for example?
Something like tauri does, by using the OS web engine, so the apps can be a few KB (depending on the code of course).