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I hope this post is at least 10 years old because it is such a powerful example of 2010s millennial humour

Ah, that sounds correct to me.

My interpretation is probably distorted by having worked at big companies that have arms in basically every part of software development so there is no side project programming that is "out of scope" there.

But working at a company with a narrower focus would let you moonlight more freely.

Salaried american software developer here. While some large companies have moonlighting carve outs, by and large the rights to any of your work done outside working hours is at the employer's discretion.

(I call out salaried because I think those clauses can vary depending on the structure of your employment)

a short hike is 100% Canadian, I'm pretty sure. The composer and programmer/artist are both from the Toronto indie scene.

Not quite. instead of a bundled pinned version of electron, it is an arbitrary version of edge's WebKit fork shared across all programs using it. That means you don't need to keep multiple copies of the webkit libraries loaded into memory.

That's not to say that building things on web technology is an efficient use of resources. Even if multiple programs are sharing the webview2 library, they're still dealing with the fundamental performance and memory problems caused by building an app in JavaScript.

As for why teams is so memory hungry? I would blame Teams.

Discord manages to make a half decent, highly responsive webview app, and that's with the overhead of having its own separate instance of electron.

EDIT: the original poster was also talking about application binary size, not runtime memory consumption. Application binary size should actually be significantly helped by linking webview to instead of bundling electron.

See: Webview2

Unfortunately, it is extremely painful to work with😔 Enjoy rolling your own script versioning and update systems instead of using squirrel et al

Edit: I think Tauri works by targeting this and webkitgtk via their wrapper library, unfortunately I can't get my coworkers to write rust

Bad news, there's precedent for making boycotts illegal, though that's based on a deliberate misreading of hate speech laws

History is not a linear progression of ages and technology is not a Civ tech tree.

Just because our descendents won't be able to reproduce the exact circumstances of our industrial revolution doesn't mean they won't find new forms of forward progress.

Check back in a few years on this one, obergefell is in the crosshairs

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