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RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components (www.windowslatest.com)
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  • Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage
  • RAM usage spikes from 1GB to 4GB on Discord both in and out of voice chat
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[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 38 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I guess the prices give us a new kind of issue ticket template; "new RAM is too expensive for me, please consider optimizing"

Less abstract, more concrete than "take less of a share please"

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Electron should be a system dependency entirely so that every single app doesn't have to be individually updated whenever there's a chromium CVE which seems to be weekly.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

We kinda have that already

Some frameworks/standard libs do support that, making use of OS webrendering capabilities.

For example MAUI WebView

WebView uses different browser engines on each platform to render web content:

  • Windows: Uses WebView2, which is based on the Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser engine. This provides modern web standards support and consistent behavior with the Edge browser.
  • Android: Uses android.webkit.WebView, which is based on the Chromium browser engine. The specific version depends on the Android WebView system component installed on the device.
  • iOS and Mac Catalyst: Uses WKWebView, which is based on the Safari WebKit browser engine. This is the same engine used by the Safari browser on iOS and macOS.