I mean if they would produce a better UI by using their expertise, how would not becoming an expert in the new thing be better?

I failed to understand the meaning of this sentence. It doesn’t make sense to me. Producing a better ui is not even on the table when we are talking ui frameworks and native programming - you use what’s available, and if you are a graphics designer then maybe you should’ve sticked to that instead. Becoming expert in native ui is super cool but I wouldn’t expect such miracles from everyone. Just producing a valid low level code is enough to meet my standards of performance. That’s because those standards were heavily affected by web frameworks existence.

The reality is that the people paying the engineer are going to want the better UX

And I hoped it would be customers who would pay for a software or a service who would send valid feedback.

AI can assist you if you more-or-less know what you’re doing

Assuming web devs creating apps don’t know what they’re doing?

but a novice replacing proper learning with ChatGPT pairing is going to write some shitty code.

Chances are that code would be much more optimized than anything electron/CEF wrapped.

to actually be up to our code quality standards

Quality standards are great. But seeing companies shipping fixes to simple CSS issues that were breaking some of main app functions made me realize most of them don’t care about quality standards. If that’s how it is and if there will still be a lot of broken stuff across app updates - might as well just go all the way to proper low level languages.

but no one is going to become an expert in something overnight

It’s not like they need to become experts. But also that’s actually possible (at least the effects of that), especially with all the AI around.

Because optimized software is better for industry, people, and environment. Also seeing that some menu or window is not an html page but a native element makes my headache go away because I value my CPU cycles (seeing a cursor doesn’t lag when some complex page is displayed should not be considered a weird fetish) and like it when things don’t do stupid unnecessary stuff both visually and under the hood.

And it could be even less than that depending on specifics.

We have it only because some devs are lazy.

That’s a very bad way to look at things. Just because I have gigabytes of memory doesn’t mean I want to use unoptimized software.

I’d rather not have frameworks based on web browsers. Programming is not that difficult.

Signal is not an alternative to telegram and vice versa. Telegram has too many public communication features that people often use. The nature of signal will prevent it from having similar features.

“Only”

You don’t understand. This way if some app crashes it will not cause others to crash too.

This is how google introduced the “multiprocess architecture” of Chrome.

Can’t wait to see something using Rust and Tauri.

What about sciter?

Love the absence of logic in these messages. Next time it’ll be “pay $2 to continue” or “do a barrel roll to continue”.

Actually I’m a fan of having a start menu but I also used some other apps and launchers, even a dock (RocketDock is one of the most useful apps for me and it’s a shame it never received the x64 version).

Used 8.1 for years and didn’t need to reinstall it even once. I appreciate it for its technical side. From what I understand it was developed together with the mobile version so it’s somewhat lighter on resources. It also lacks aero which adds to that.

8.1 is a faster version of 7 that also has some compatibility with apps that are said to require 10. Just disable those metro things and use your favorite app for start menu.

Why is it 37 mb? Stock Samsung sms app is 2 times smaller.

Did someone think about backing up the commit history? I believe it can be useful for future devs.

Installs are nothing. Fork it. Improve it. Even better if original devs would still contribute.

Yes the availability will remain an issue but at least I imagine that solving other issues could make it less serious.

More specifically, the issue (a feature too but still) with torrents is how spread they are. It’s difficult to know what is available and in what condition. There are dozens if not hundreds private trackers etc. This all makes it more likely for new torrents for the same content to be created multiple times, and overall seeding resources to be spread out across multiple versions of the same things. Some centralized public index might have helped everyone find things faster and prolong those things’ availability as the result. What such an index might need to stay damage-proof and useful is unrelated to this discussion, but I imagine it might work as some blockchain and thus may not require much in terms of resources.

I didn’t mean syncthing itself but some theoretical derivative that would have relevant features.

It would help to involve a kind of software infrastructure where users would choose how much resources (mostly disk space) they are willing to give in order to contribute to the overall availability of stuff.

A different, better protocol for sharing. Torrent is cool but files on it tend to die off, and also can’t be updated. I’m thinking something like syncthing might be the future.

Well I never touched sidebery css. Just using the default visual settings while the browser is in night mode. Looks good enough to me.

Ditched it for sidebery. So much less laggy now.