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What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers? (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you imagine that it abstracts an underlying GUI framework?

Please tell me, how would an HTML engine render something like a few paragraphs of text flowing around embedded images whatever which way, if it did that over a traditional framework like Qt/Gtk/etc.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's what i say, minimized webbrowsers are a slight bit less bloaty but still make for bloaty GUI frameworks.