alt Hacker NewsYeah, 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.
When your flashing app starts getting bigger than the operating systems it's writing, you should start asking yourself some questions.
Etcher truly is the clowniest Electron app of them all.