Seeking #developer #advice ❤️ 🤔
We want to create a webby GUI app for accessing federated forge network, a bit like Element is to Matrix 🖥️
Been considering to write from scratch using Tauri, Tailwind, didn't pick a language 
Now considering to fork #GitHub Desktop instead! Replace GitHub API with ForgeFed and tweak the UI etc. 
https://github.com/desktop/desktop
It's an existing codebase with over 33k commits
Is it a good idea to fork? Thoughts/concerns/advice? And boost 🙏
--fr33
@forgefed
Such an Electron-based program would be unrunnable on my low memory dev machine I use. Web technology is extremely resource intensive. I can't for example run more than 5 Firefox tabs, or Firefox + Telegram, at the same time without my machine crashing.
I'd say, invest a little time learning a GUI framework, like GTK. I'd be able to use it! Or at the very least write a simple, brutalist CSS, traditional CRUD application.
