This trend of a hundred desktop applications all bundling their own copy of Chromium really bothers me. I know the situation sucks on Windows, but on Mac, why not use the system WebKit framework? I know the decision was made upstream of this project, in Electron, but this project will increase the proliferation of app-private copies of Chromium.
For the past year or so, when thinking about software bloat, I always come back to this sad bit of dialog from the novel _Off to Be the Wizard_:
Phillip (time traveler from 1984): What on earth can a person do with 4 gigabytes of RAM?
Martin (from 2012): Upgrade it immediately.
Do we really want to make that situation even worse?
For the past year or so, when thinking about software bloat, I always come back to this sad bit of dialog from the novel _Off to Be the Wizard_:
Phillip (time traveler from 1984): What on earth can a person do with 4 gigabytes of RAM?
Martin (from 2012): Upgrade it immediately.
Do we really want to make that situation even worse?