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  • unexpectedteapot@lemmy.mltoProgramming@programming.devSoftware disenchantment
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    1 year ago

    It’s like the other comments are living in a parallel universe.

    What part of the article did they actually read? Isn’t the Slack/Electron resource utilisation screenshot enough to prove an important point?

    No, Electron-based applications are not better than “they used to be.”

    We all fucking know why Electron got all of these companies interested in making applications with it: cheap, probably imported labour to build applications. That’s it. And no, it is not better “DX” either. NPM and the NodeJS ecosystem in general are toxic and unsustainable for larger applications.




  • unexpectedteapot@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml*Exhales dramatically*
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    1 year ago

    Am I the only one thinking how problematic that product is?

    I guess ‘think of the children’ only comes up when governments want to ban end-to-end encryption or ask for ID when viewing porn, but everyone is dandy with addictive products advertisements targeted at children such as the one in the meme, gambling in video games, toy companies exploiting children, and more…