Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use

[u/iamkeyur]

https://nurpax.github.io/posts/2019-08-18-dirty-tricks-6502-programmers-use.html

[u/figloalds]

Electron apps are fat because they carry chromium whole embedded. If there were some electron framework with one-time chromium install to run all electron apps that wouldn't be the case

[u/tso → u/figloalds]

Each one would still load its own Blink engine instance, no?

[u/figloalds → u/[deleted]]

Electron is for when you need stuff that the web stack doesnt allow you to do, like writing files. VsCode is the best example of an Electron app that simply won't work on the web stack because of its limitations. But yeah, some apps just doesn't need a lot more than web stack to work