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pantulis on Nov 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Sili...

" (Electron does put multiplatform desktop development within reach of 100x more developers than Qt/etc)"

This! The old joke of Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping for Emacs is not relevant today any more. Same will happen with Electron, developer productivity will trump anything.

anoncake on Nov 20, 2020 | [–]

Hardware improves a lot more slowly than it used to be.

pantulis on Nov 20, 2020 | | [–]

This is a very good point!

egypturnash on Nov 20, 2020 | [–]

s/productivity/laziness/

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