[0xcoffee]

I know it's against the HN rules to complain, but this comment really feels so generic. Like every time a JS project is posted, 'oh npm is so bloated'. Everytime there is a new app, 'oh electron is so inefficient'. Everytime something is packaged in a docker 'whats the point of containerizing this'.

It's really making me sad to browse HN sometimes.

[toyg]

It's just nerds being nerds, nothing new. Dropbox as ftp and rsync yadda yadda. Other tribes have "is that even lifting" and stuff like that. Take it as small talk (pun intended) and just collapse the thread, you can do that these days.

[zbentley]

I sympathize with what you're complaining about, but I don't think GP is an instance of that. GP is (rightly, IMO) complaining that the linked article proposes something with extra steps that are not needed, as in: it could be easier than suggested. The typical HN gripes you describe are sort of the inverse of that: complaints that easy-to-use things (electron, npm) are flawed in comparison to their harder-to-use counterparts.