Cheaper & faster development by leveraging large libraries/frameworks, but inability to automatically drop most unused parts of those libraries/frameworks. You could in theory shrink Electron way down by yoinking out tons of browser features you're not using, but there's not much incentive to do it and it'd potentially require a lot of engineering work.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)

64kb should be enough for anyone

[–] ngdev@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

is that the size of doom or something lol

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 20 points 4 days ago

Its a reference to an old he said she said quote attributed to bill gates from the 1990's

“640K ought to be enough for anyone” — Bill Gate

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/

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