@tanepiper could not agree more! Electron's irked me since day 1
@JungleGeorge24 The funny thing is, it was completely a step backward. A decade ago I was building Adobe AIR apps that were small and compact. Microsoft's dominance in the 90s killed the idea of a WebView for desktop and Chrome is a poor replacement for it.
@tanepiper is #Tauri not the Webview for desktop you mention? And why would Webviews for desktop run lighter than Chrome?
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@tanepiper is this just a file duplication problem? If all Electron apps on a system were built with the same version of Electron, and their object files were deduplicated, would it reduce the memory footprint when all the apps are running?
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@tetrislife @JungleGeorge24 No because it's an instance per app AKAIK, so you need 2gb RAM per app at least? With plugins VSCode will easily take up more.
@tanepiper @tetrislife @JungleGeorge24 This would be the case on a good operating system IF electron was installed system-wide, but bundling it with every app destroys that.
That's also my number one issue with containers.
@tetrislife @JungleGeorge24 Possibly, the problem is the number of apps - each one its own Chrome instance.