alt Hacker NewsIt can and it does, because it drops a ton of code for scenarios that do not exist. (Not these numbers, of course, but if you check the comments of that account.. well. Yeah. Some kid)
Electron rose to fame because one could just do everything with it and it was good enough.
Being able to do everything also means that the thing can do everything everywhere all at once, which is many lines of code.
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The magic of electron was that it was "cheap", however, with code being all AI-generated, that's even cheaper. So now everything will be some slop rust until the point when people realize that there is a cost to be paid after all.
For electron, that has been RAM and performance. For the vibeslop.. well. We shall see.
Unironically, with LLMs, everyone should be looking to cut their system resource consumption (memory, disk, network, GPU, I/O traffic in general) and rewrite everything natively. Have a platform-independent business logic layer, and a platform-dependent UI/UX layer. Done. It's not even that hard, and has been done several times over; we quite literally have MVC/MVVM/etc that were invented two decades ago.
Operating systems developers should be looking to profile everything. Benchmarking and profiling used to be horribly time-consuming; nowadays, with agents, this is almost trivial. Then valuable engineer time can be spent looking at actually solving and optimising the workloads, from the kernel, to drivers, to user-mode libraries, to vendored applications.
About a decade ago programming was expensive, and we decided writing everything in JavaScript was OK, and wasted everyone's memory instead of using programmer time to write fast and efficient native applications. This is no longer the case.