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DC-3 • today at 1:37 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you want things to work every single time on a billion different devices this is how you do it.


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titzer • today at 2:37 PM

Yeah, and then 100 different apps can repackage the browser engine as an Electron app, each weigh 300+mb.

I saw this recently with Balena etcher. It's a firmware flashing app with about 10 buttons total. It's over 400mb because it's written in node and has an electron GUI.

Good jerb.

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