alt Hacker NewsApps can't be 100MB on modern displays, because there are literally too many pixels involved.
Not that I know what's going on in an Electron app heap (because there's no inspection tools afaik), but I'm guessing much of it is compiled code and the rest is images and text layout related.
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imtringued • yesterday at 9:29 AM
Are you 100% sure every single window needs to have 8k resolution?
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> Apps can't be 100MB on modern displays, because there are literally too many pixels involved.
What? Are you talking about assets? You'd need a considerable amount of very high-res, uncompressed or low-compressed assets to use up 100MB. Not to mention all the software that uses vector icons, which take up a near-zero amount of space in comparison to raster images.
Electron apps always take up a massive amount of space because every separate install is a fully self-contained version of Chromium. No matter how lightweight your app is, Electron will always force a pretty large space overhead.