Inspired by: https://piefed.world/post/662997
I didn’t realize it had gotten that bad. I bought 2x16gb DDR4 RAM in 2021 for $204 CAD. I bought the identical set for $69 in 2024. The same set (this is all on Newegg) today is $279. That is insane!
The ram I bought about a month ago has gone up $200 $300-$400 depending on where you buy it.
From drastic oversupply to drastic undersupply in like a year.
Does this mean app devs will finally stop using electron and related to build the world’s least efficient UI?
I can always hope!
No, it means they will use LLMs (AGI™) to rewrite new electron apps from the ground up with exciting new breaking changes each release. You will have to schedule hardware updates at a yearly bases if you want to make use of your software subscription. Luckily, they will offer a hardware subscription which only costs twice as much as it should, it will come with insurance which will never be redeemable for the low cost of $30 a month.
This is my hope. There are so many cross-platform GUI toolkits out there that are orders of magnitude more efficient than electron and nobody uses them. It’s not like GTK and Qt are difficult to learn. In fact, I find them easier to wrap my head around than a lot of the JS nonsense out there.
I have bad memories of apps built in qt but that was decades ago, and my objection is visual.
JavaScript, despite any popularity, is a trash language for an application that runs outside of a browser
I suspect that your visual objection may be similar to mine, but over the past several years of being subjected to electron trash, using apps written in Qt kind of reminds me now of a simpler time. Nostalgia is a powerful drug, isn’t it?
That all being said, I do find myself preferring the look of GTK apps lately, in spite of the rather controversial direction their design has taken.
Just looked into the ram I got last year. From about $200 when I got it to $750 now
I’m so glad my mobo died last year so I got new one with new DDR5 ram before this happened. It’s like a good example for bad things not always being so bad after all.
