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Comment by Zelphyr | Hacker News Reader

I don't mean to knock this project because it looks interesting and I wish the developer all the best. But, why does every damn project announced have to be "lightweight"? Even the ones that are definitely not light anything.

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In general I agree with you, I seems to come up a lot with javascript frameworks. But in this case, it's a pretty specific claim, right? The dev is saying that it's lighter on resources than Postman because it's built with Java and not Electron. I think it's fair even given the current overuse of "lightweight."

It might be fair if true. But is it true? In general java desktop apps that I've used have been heavy users of memory & cpu resources (I don't think any of these were JavaFX-based though).

On my system, Everest is using a lot more memory than Insomnia. Perhaps an unfair comparison as Everest is an alpha, whereas Insomnia is very polished. But I see nothing to support the claim.

In my country there's an aphorism that roughly translates as "Tell me what you boast about and I'll tell you what you lack".

It's a marketing term. It is often not provable either way and sounds good.

It's lightweight compared to the other options because all the other options are Electron based.

It's like saying something is "fast" - its a platitude that can draw developers to at least look at it, which is hard to do with all the new projects coming out constantly.

I feel like to announce it as leightweight you should at least include memory/latency benchmarks.

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