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by illiarian 1169 days ago
> It _sucks_ compared to some other non existent platform.

Those platforms exist: desktop and mobile. People are so enamoured with the web and/or have no experience outside the web, and so don't know how insanely more performant almost literally everything outside the web is.
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selfmodruntime 1168 days ago
Sorry, but no. You‘re wrong. „Desktop“ isn‘t a platform, it‘s a loose term for native applications running directly on your OS. „Desktop“ is extremely fragmented: Windows, MacOS, Linux. The latter is fragmented as well.

I will gladly take every disadvantage of the web to deliver my products to every platform. The alternative is not shipping to MacOS and Linux systems.

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lkschubert8 1167 days ago
But those platforms _suck_ in terms of time to market/time to add features in a cross platform way. That's the terms that they lose to the web on.
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Turing_Machine 1169 days ago
I have an M2 with lots-o-RAM. Not everything needs to be "performant".

I'm old enough to remember the same arguments being made when people started using C rather than ASM.

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illiarian 1169 days ago
> Not everything needs to be "performant".

With that attitude you get Microsoft officially advertising their new Teams version that takes 9 seconds to show less than 1kb of text (3 seconds just to show the splashscreen).

Yes, we are running what essentially amounts to supercomputers. Why is it then that Slack still requires 20% CPU to show an animated emoji? Or that Matrix spikes to 60% CPU when scrolling through a largely empty channel? Or...

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