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What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers? (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Even Electron apps can be small: Stretchly, a break reminder, normally takes something like 20 MB of memory.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Still has about 20 abstractions to simulate a GUI in a Document Object Model. And the framework for your small code has more loc than your OS.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (3 children)

    What the hell are you talking about? Who are you talking to?

    You don't need a ‘framework’ to write JavaScript. And HTML doesn't ‘simulate’ a GUI, it in fact provides a paradigm and an engine ready for rendering gobs of text, images and whatnot, on which any other typical GUI framework would choke like a little baby. And you would have to implement any minuscule element from scratch in godforsaken C++ of all things.

    Maybe learn a thing or two of what you're trying to speak about.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    provides a paradigm and an engine […], on which any other typical GUI framework would choke like a little baby

    Uhuh. And how you think it does that?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Do you imagine that it abstracts an underlying GUI framework?

    Please tell me, how would an HTML engine render something like a few paragraphs of text flowing around embedded images whatever which way, if it did that over a traditional framework like Qt/Gtk/etc.

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