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> Code needs to be written properly; you can’t just waste money and resources endlessly to cover up inefficiencies.

Quite rare to hear this wise line these days. An I guess with AI coding assistant, this is only the beginning of this kind of horror story

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nurettin 2 days ago | parent [-]

For me, the horror story started when people ditched optimal desktop apps for Electron because they knew js and css.

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beng-nl 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Perhaps we can make an AI translate electron apps into native apps…

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poisonborz a day ago | parent | prev [-]

So tired of hearing this trope. Electron is alright. Memory is cheap. Tell me a single better way to write cross-platform UI other than a worse version of Electron.

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mdaniel a day ago | parent | next [-]

> Memory is cheap

If you're running on commodity hardware, sure; if you happen to be a $1T company that solders 3x marked-up RAM then that's definitely not true https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/16-inch-space... is the entry model, and clicking the 48GB option dials the price up to $3k

	▲	poisonborz a day ago \| parent [-]
		The cheapest Apple laptops start with 16GB now. That's enough for quite a few desktop apps regardless of Electron.

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nurettin a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure, but what do you think would count as better?