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Submitted stuff to the front page of HN twice in 25 hours. Finally checking out the comments.
Oof.
I am so tired of the "SoFtWaRe Is So InEfFiCiEnT" take. It's such a shallow, reductive, least-effort sort of take on how important software has become on our lives.
This admonition also extends to people who think developer and user accessibility (both cognitively and physically) is always less important than efficiency.
You're just wrong. Electron as an engine may be inefficient and poorly maintained, but as a developer experience it's a zillion times better than whatever C++ backed Qt environment you're pushing as somehow equivalent when it requires a huge amount more effort to learn and use safely and provide good accessibility with.
@endomain yeppppp. I wrote a hundred lines of c last week (the last 3 years have been entirely Go, python, rust, assembly, and scripting) and was reminded what a legacy and dangerous pile of limitations that stuff is.