[exq]

Instead of electron we'd be bundling an entire OS with our chat apps.

[johnklos]

That would be nice, because many OSes are much smaller than Electron.

[ilaksh]

Electron basically IS an entire OS. Since Chromium has APIs for doing just about anything, including accessing the filesystem and USB devices and 500 other APIs.

[ReactiveJelly]

If _accessing_ the filesystem counts toward being an OS, and not _implementing_ the filesystem, then I guess Qt and the stdlib of every lang is also "kind of an OS"

[selfhoster11]

That's splitting hairs. Paravirtualised IO on a virtual machine doesn't make the guest OS running inside it, any less of an OS just because it has a simpler interface to the outside world than a SATA/SAS/NVMe controller.

[rowanG077]

Oh we are not far away from that. Most devs consider it completely fine to run a docker instance per project.

[randomf]

many apps already have "wget docker image" as the first step