Hacker News: domga

New comment by domga in "GPT‑Live"

domga — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:03:27 +0000

This is an individual solution to a systemic problem. On a personal level, it is possible to solve such problems, but generally no, the ship has sailed quite some time ago (I personally think cars are to blame).

Even if you do it, you are still swimming against the current.

New comment by domga in "I don't want my search engine to think for me"

domga — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:32:40 +0000

I can’t decide whether this is sarcasm or not. “You are holding it wrong” kinda sidesteps the issue that the results are fundamentally different.

New comment by domga in "Native all the way, until you need text"

domga — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:40:18 +0000

The problem with Electron is not that people choose it over native tech like WPF or SwiftUI, they choose it over nothing. Without Electron tons of cross platform apps simply wouldn’t exist.

I think macOS suffers the most since it is not that hard to port an iOS app to Mac, and Linux benefits the most.

New comment by domga in "Native all the way, until you need text"

domga — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:37:08 +0000

The issue with JS is that each page gets its own execution context so they don’t share any memory. I am actually curious what does the WebView do to save on RAM here?

New comment by domga in "Native all the way, until you need text"

domga — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:30:56 +0000

JavaScript frameworks/libraries are very rarely the problem, Electron just has to bundle Node, V8 and Chromium (granted, V8 is deduplicated).

Electron apps are hungry for RAM, but in practice it is close to having a heavy tab active. The thing about browsers is that they are pretty aggressive at offloading inactive tabs but Electron apps never do that.

New comment by domga in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

domga — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:48:22 +0000

A decent chunk of OOP patterns was due to lack of language features, notably passing and returning functions

New comment by domga in "Excommunicated devs making games with AI"

domga — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:22:34 +0000

I don’t really think AI would help much with the gaps related to the actual game design. It should allow for faster feature development, adding QoL, etc, but you need the actual game part coming from you.

New comment by domga in "URLs are state containers"

domga — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:16:56 +0000

Links with lots of data in them are really annoying to share. I see the value in storing some state there, but I don’t think there is room for much of it.

New comment by domga in "You Want Technology with Warts"

domga — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:15:08 +0000

Not really, web pages (which do not depend on specific APIs) still work just fine, they just look antiquated.

Desktop apps in theory can run too, but it depends on what they link and if OS still provides it.

New comment by domga in "Janet: Lightweight, Expressive, Modern Lisp"

domga — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 06:48:17 +0000

Yeah I am eagerly awaiting it, but it is not ready yet, so for now Janet is the best substitute.

New comment by domga in "The Future of Flatpak"

domga — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:22:48 +0000

Microsoft definitely wants to evolve, from my understanding they are looking at trying to lure people to package their apps, and to present similar hurdles as on macOS if your app is unsigned.

But due to old apps which nobody will update to package, I assume a lot of users will just disable all sort of warnings.