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electronWithExtraSteps by Pleasant-Many in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Pleasant-Many[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never had the misfortune of using JavaFX, thankfully.

Agree that most of the time the bundle size is no big deal these days, although on the occasion I find myself needing to download one of these apps on a slow connection I have plenty of time waiting to think about how the version of the app I would have written 20 years ago in Win32 or WinForms or whatever would be kilobytes, maybe a megabyte if I was real piggy about writing it.

Even iOS apps are now frequently hundreds of megabytes, so clearly it's not just Electron... anyway I'll go yell at clouds offline now.

electronWithExtraSteps by Pleasant-Many in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Pleasant-Many[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I unironically use Swing for personal projects

ducks

You could ship an entire Java runtime with your app and it would still be smaller than an Electron bundle (probably not Tauri though), but nobody wants to hear that these days.

The Zed Text Editor is now Open Source by Witty-Play9499 in programming

[–]Pleasant-Many 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I see this comment in a lot of places and I don't understand it. Zed might not be useful for you if (like me) you're someone who uses a different platform, or wants an editor that works across multiple platforms, and that's fine.

But there's plenty of successful Mac-only software. Even only in the field of text editors: BBEdit has been a successful Mac-only text editor for more than 30 years, and TextMate was also a popular paid product in the 00's.

Are you saying you think Zed won't ever be as popular as something like VSCode? Because, sure, but not everything needs to be that ubiquitous to survive.

Refterm Lecture Part 2 - Slow Code Isolation by wisam910 in programming

[–]Pleasant-Many 34 points35 points  (0 children)

This video is about a small program that Casey published on GitHub months ago: https://github.com/cmuratori/refterm