Most resources are not consumed by wonky code or dependencies. Most resources are consumed by images and sounds.
It's just that we have to make space for our 5,358 partners and the telemetry data they need.
Electron everywhere.
And analytics. And offloading as much computation to the client, because servers are expensive and inefficiency is not an issue if your users are the ones paying for it.
Web "Apps" are also quite bad. Lots of and lots of stuff we're downloading and it feels clunky.
Sometimes that's bad coding, poor optimization, third party libraries, or sometimes just including trackers/ads on the page.
I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That's right, thirty megabytes.
It's amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.
Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.
Paypal has 500 mb and just shows a number and you can press a button to send a number to their server.
It's insane
You made me check it, and on my android device it's 337 (just the app). Jesus Christ.
Mine has 660MB with 7MB user data, 15MB cache.
Check out the apps Hermit and Native Alpha. They make web pages run like an app. I've only run into a couple sites where they don't work right.
Dude!! What a badass concept, cannot wait to give this a shot!!
Cheaper & faster development by leveraging large libraries/frameworks, but inability to automatically drop most unused parts of those libraries/frameworks. You could in theory shrink Electron way down by yoinking out tons of browser features you're not using, but there's not much incentive to do it and it'd potentially require a lot of engineering work.
Yeah, though the joke is funny, this is the real answer.
Storage is cheap compared to creating custom libraries.
Yep. Apps are 20x bigger with no new features...that you are using.
Let's not forget that the graphics for applications has scaled with display resolution, and people generally demand a smooth modern look for their apps.
It's the secret sauce, called unnecessary frameworks and user analytics modules.
With that in mind, I LOVE how lean and fast some FOSS apps/projects are. One of my motivations to go searching for FOSS alternatives is when something seems slow for no reason.
It's not always the case, but it's often the case
KDE Plasma has been getting so much more efficient with every release that you can almost recommend it for low-end systems.
I remeber using plasma on a weak 2016 160 usd laptop with no issue in 2018, I can only imagine how much better is now
lol my laptop is from 2012, i run gnome and kde easily. windows usually needs a round of debloating every update to be usable.
User analytics is such an innocent word for spyware.
Bloatware, spyware, scope creep from middle managers feeling uncomfortable letting a dev have a slow day.
Skill issue
Nailed it. Things have changed to allow cheaper (interpretable in several ways) developers to create "good enough" software as quickly as possible. If that involves inefficient frameworks, technology, and practices that unlock this, then so be it; if the "best" code is the code that makes money, and money is what corporations prioritize above all else, and there is a way to do that quicker and cheaper, the outcome is obvious and now ubiquitous. Furthermore, if nobody at the top cares, why should anyone on the ground care? The problem compounds.
Priorities are fucked.
If it runs "fast enough" on a completely clean system that would cost the average user $1500, then companies assume that that means that it is a good product.
If you want better software, you have to give developers worse hardware to develop on, and more time to develop.
Marketing. Corporate leadership has decided marketing knows better software design than actual engineers.
Kinda tired of people referring to my work as "IT"
I think this is a European thing. "IT" is a general term for any tech work, whereas in the US that term refers to technician level network infrastructure and sysadmin work.
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