💩 Meta just killed native WhatsApp on Windows 11, now it opens WebView, uses 1GB RAM all the time
｢ My understanding is that the recent layoffs at Mark Zuckerberg-headed Meta likely disbanded the entire team behind the native WhatsApp. I don’t see any other reason why Meta would abandon its native app for Windows. Meta will save costs by maintaining the web app codebase on Windows, but you’re going to hate the experience ｣
Spent about 2 days last week giving creating desktop apps for @silverbulletmd another try. One using @TauriApps but the amount of work I'd have to do in Rust is more than I need right now (really trying to keep the number of technologies down), and another with #Electron but distributing an entire Chrome based OS with an app like this is just... ugly. Let alone all the app signing shenanigans. Yuck. For now just parked this all on a branch again, maybe I'll get back to it again at some point.
This is why I dropped the desktop and mobile apps originally a few years ago and well all in on #PWA. It easy to forget how nice web developers have it not having to deal with all the desktop stuff.
alcinnz
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Are there any third-party #Signal clients worth trying?
I'm disgusted that a chat client needs a gigabyte of RAM.
#Electron is such garbage, yo. :/
Just imagine if Sir Tim had been BDFL over the web and basically told all of these APIs from hell and crazy JS frameworks to go eat dirt.
Imagine if a fully-featured, modern web browser could run in 100MiB RAM, the way they did 15 years ago or so.
Are there any third-party #Signal clients worth trying?
I'm disgusted that a chat client needs a gigabyte of RAM.
#Electron is such garbage, yo. :/
Just imagine if Sir Tim had been BDFL over the web and basically told all of these APIs from hell and crazy JS frameworks to go eat dirt.
Imagine if a fully-featured, modern web browser could run in 100MiB RAM, the way they did 15 years ago or so.
alcinnz
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