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Comment by eugeneionesco | Hacker News Reader

node.js? Seriously?

Yes. node-webkit / nw.js is really slick. I love that I can create a desktop app without even a hint of Cocoa or Obj-C on my part. The runtime is like 90mb, yes, but the source itself is 4mb including dependencies. Memory usage is decent at ~18mb

I don't know about you, but I don't want an applet as small as this eating up 18MB...

Really, what's up with you people?

BTW, not saying that the idea is bad or anything, but it's sad to see people talking about such a waste of resources like it's OK to use in "production". People have other stuff running on their machines and it adds up, quickly.

> The runtime is like 90mb, yes, but the source itself is 4mb

Not to be too acerbic, but, first of all, 4 MB is already huge for an applet. Secondly, how does the fact that the source is 4 MB excuse the 90 MB runtime?!

Please pardon my zeal, but...

18mb is not decent for such a simple little app! What?!?!

I love that I can create a desktop app without even a hint of javascript / webkit / nodejs

Sure, there are a lot of other languages to write this little app in, but why not?

There are plenty of other languages that are probably already installed on a given person's laptop (e.g.python, ruby, clang, swift now? etc. come built in) that also are better suited for an user-facing app with no web dependencies.

Not to mention webkit running a menu bar app is nauseous, though I would certainly hope 99% of the framework isn't involved.

we are everywhere and we're not even java

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