"Is there still a place for native desktop apps?" My position on this question is simple: YES. Embedded web browser are a curse. We have super powerful computers but I feel like we can do less things because of such applications... context: news.ycombinator.com/item?idโ€ฆ
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And yes electron, I'm looking at you!
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For work I have to use MS Teams for the project I'm on. The teams app, which the website *PUSHES* you to use, takes a gig of RAM to sit there doing nothing more than the website did. (over 4x as much as the FF tab)
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Replying to @dsilverstone @imperioworld_
Don't get me wrong - I think 250 megs of RAM for a sub-par chat system in a browser tab is pretty overweight too, but still...

May 18, 2020 ยท 12:29 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
Well, at least it's "expected" from the browser to use all of your RAM haha.