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  • Ah, that sounds correct to me.

    My interpretation is probably distorted by having worked at big companies that have arms in basically every part of software development so there is no side project programming that is "out of scope" there.

    But working at a company with a narrower focus would let you moonlight more freely.

  • Salaried american software developer here. While some large companies have moonlighting carve outs, by and large the rights to any of your work done outside working hours is at the employer's discretion.

    (I call out salaried because I think those clauses can vary depending on the structure of your employment)

  • Why indeed

  • Not quite. instead of a bundled pinned version of electron, it is an arbitrary version of edge's WebKit fork shared across all programs using it. That means you don't need to keep multiple copies of the webkit libraries loaded into memory.

    That's not to say that building things on web technology is an efficient use of resources. Even if multiple programs are sharing the webview2 library, they're still dealing with the fundamental performance and memory problems caused by building an app in JavaScript.

    As for why teams is so memory hungry? I would blame Teams.

    Discord manages to make a half decent, highly responsive webview app, and that's with the overhead of having its own separate instance of electron.

    EDIT: the original poster was also talking about application binary size, not runtime memory consumption. Application binary size should actually be significantly helped by linking webview to instead of bundling electron.

  • Why indeed

  • See: Webview2

    Unfortunately, it is extremely painful to work with😔 Enjoy rolling your own script versioning and update systems instead of using squirrel et al

    Edit: I think Tauri works by targeting this and webkitgtk via their wrapper library, unfortunately I can't get my coworkers to write rust

  • Definitely seems like they want the layoff from my position in the industry.

    The tech megagiants are massively reallocating their budgets from "paying people for new product development" to datacenter build-outs, under the belief that AI will fundamentally restructure all knowledge work into property you can own and extract rent from.

    Unfortunately the industry is completely non union and a good chunk of employees are on H1B or TN visas where they will get deported if they get fired. That really puts a damper on wanting to rock the boat.

    Expect things to get less stable and shittier over time as this trend continues.

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  • I'm holding out some hope, since twitch is live but YouTube is pre-buffered, but they could still block loading past the ad on a timer or a key computed from hashing the decoded frames of the ad, idk