There is the web version:
They are working on an electron wrapper too
They are working on an electron wrapper too
Awesome. I can't wait to use 900 megs of memory to play an mp3.
My VSC with a file open sits at 80 megs... I think my 24GB machine can handle it.
Look at Discord app. Look at Slack. Or any other Electron bloatware. The executable is .1GB big minimum, and eats memory because it first has to start a browser.
Oh, and none of these browsers share memory or anything, so you get X copies of the same thing.
Just kidding, Electron is pigware to the the extreme.
It's the "like" that is the significant detail here.
> You must be 10 years old!
I disagree with your assessment therefore I'm stupid? immature? I hope this was an unusually abusive moment for you, and you don't generally treat folks this way.
I'm currently on IRC using HexChat. I'm in 6 different IRC rooms, with 2 being 500+ users and lively discussion. I'm using 27.8MB ram and since execution 2 seconds of CPU time total. It doesn't do inline images or frillies like what Slack does, but that's what links are for.
Electron-ized IRC is a magnitude more CPU and ram than a native application. This is a waste of my resources and time, so that a developer can be significantly lazy in doing some 'app'.
Of course, the upside is that using electron allows targeting linux/windows/mac. That's not trivial either, however, the resource costs of running X chrome backends is not negligible. With much of the heavier processing I do (RF hacking), this would never work with any sort of acceptable timings or throughput.
The more significant upside is that you can add features to an electron app 10x faster than to a C app, and non-technical users care about features (inline images and frillies, etc) more than they care about RAM efficiency
It's 2% of my system's memory.
The entire thing.
And it's not written in JS, it's mainly written in C++.
What's next, are you saying that C++ is bad, because C was more efficient, without that "object oriented" riff raff?
And C was bad, because "system's programming must be done in the assembly language, that's the cleanest".
Next, you are taking my mouse, and my bitmapped monitor, right?
Still, I find that perfectly acceptable.
I went to Best Buy's website, and saw the best sold machines.
There's one that's really cheap ($229) and comes with 4GB's, definitively not a productivity machine.
Then there's an HP for $399 that comes with 8GB. Another for $100 more with 12GB.
I filtered out for laptops with more than 8GB, brand new (not refurbs), and you can get a 8GB complete machine for just $379.99, that's less than many popular phones out there (and I'm not talking about Apple products).
I get it, some people live in poor countries, I live in a relatively poor country (Portugal). And I know how this might sound like. But you are programming, you are not sheltering, feeding, or helping people. You are working for big $$$ corporations. Like any worker, you should ask for fees that at least cover your equipment costs.
Remember that 0.5GB is 6.25% of a modern computer's memory.
Back in the C64 days, you bought a 64KB machine for less $$$ in the 80's, than those computers today, and after boot up, and BASIC, and it only had 38911 bytes free out of the 65536 bytes. So, only 59% free.
Back when computers had 1MB of RAM (early 90's), anyone can point me, to an editor that only costed 62.5KB of RAM? I think I'm not going to find it... unless it's just notepad.exe.
Etc. etc. etc.
The problem is that people, for some reason, started to think they need a new phone, for leisure, every 2 years (in some richer countries, it's 12 months), and a new PC, a tool for work, only every 10 years. And that the phone can cost $1000 and it's okay, and the PC, cannot cost more than $500 or it's "overpriced". I think it's ridiculous.