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anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months agothe webapps are so bloated they don’t even fit in small ram!
Comment on Anon time travels
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months agothe webapps are so bloated they don’t even fit in small ram!
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
A guy at work wrote a script to automate something for a department. The script was, I don’t know, sub-100 lines of JavaScript. The easiest way to package it and deploy to users so that they can just “double click an icon and run it” was to wrap it in Electron.
The original source file was 8 KB.
The application was 350 MB.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Could he not have packaged it as a .HTML file?
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Well, I don’t think our antivirus would let that through anyway. But the reason we wanted an .exe is also because then I could pack it as Intune-deployed package and make it available for the users that work on the thing it’s automating (there were still some manual steps needed in the process).
Deploying an in-house built .exe solves the problem of the .exe not being certificate-signed, so things like SmartScreen stop blocking it.