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by gen2brain 325 days ago
How can starting a browser be a best practice? This app is lightweight and does not even use a GUI toolkit. You would roughly use 20x more memory. How is that a best practice?
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perching_aix 325 days ago
Using sarcasm. Sarcasm that you missed.
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gen2brain 325 days ago
I stopped reading the rest. I just saw Electron is mentioned. Some people honestly think that is a good approach.
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perching_aix 325 days ago
Well, it is extremely portable. Just also all the other things you mentioned.
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fmbb 325 days ago
Both Windows and macOS have X servers. Heck don’t they both ship with them nowadays?
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redeeman 325 days ago
not really that portable?
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unixhero 325 days ago
No, not rest API, electron.
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