Cheaper & faster development by leveraging large libraries/frameworks, but inability to automatically drop most unused parts of those libraries/frameworks. You could in theory shrink Electron way down by yoinking out tons of browser features you're not using, but there's not much incentive to do it and it'd potentially require a lot of engineering work.
Ads and trackers
Memory is cheap and data sells enough to many parties. Most apps are just store front for Ads and data collection.
No wonder why open source apps are quite light.
Oh, they have new functionality. It's all in the back end, detailing everything you do and sending it to the parent company so they can monetize your life.
I'd argue that deploying from one codebase to 3+ different platforms is new functionality, although not for the end user per se.
I wish though that more of the web apps would come as no batteries included (by default or at least as a selectable option), i.e. use whatever webview is available on the system instead of shipping another one regardless of if you want it or not.
There's lots of valid reasons for this.
Imo the biggest one people don't account for is this: Dev salaries are incredibly high. if you want fast performance the most optimal way would be to target the platform and use low level native code, so C++ or Swift.
It would cost you like 20x more than just using electron and it will cost you bigly if you have multiple platforms to maintain.
So it turns out having 1 team crunching out an app on electron with hundreds of dependencies is cheaper, naturally that's what most companies will do.
Don't want to use electron ? Then it's kind of the same issue except this time you're using Java and C# and you have to handle platform specific things on your own (think audio libraries for example). It's definitely doable but will be more costly than using a cross platform chromium app.
Remember that day when GDPR dropped and website suddenly started loading much faster.
Performance/optimisation wise is an environmental catastrophe..
It's nearly all just using a whole library instead of the specific single function thats actually required, because few people are actually writing any code these days.
Duh, it's because more and more code is ran remotely. Wait...
Did my husband made this meme? Because he is constantly saying this 😂😂😂😂
Is this the appropriate point to reference the suckless community? I mean, that's THE point of the movement...
And every CoD and most big title games..
