The_Decryptor

The CPU usage spikes aren’t necessarily from React Native itself being particularly heavyweight, but rather from the fundamental architectural choice of running a web-based rendering engine for core system UI elements.

And there's still web directories hanging around, similar to the now dead dmoz site.

https://url.town/ and https://curlie.org/ for example

The likes of both Microsoft and Apple are openly hostile to such frameworks (QT and GTK come to mind).

Funny thing, the OneDrive client app that ships with Windows, uses Qt

React Native doesn't render using a browser instance, it's native code (as the name implies), it's actually a layer over WinUI 3 (Previous versions used WPF/UWP)

So it's in the same boat as MAUI, which is also a layer over WinUI 3.

It's such a fantastic sci-fi name, since "foliated calcite" is a real thing, so they just swapped some letters out and made it sound stranger.

It's soup level when you don't notice it's defrosting for 4-5 months.

(and why isn’t spell check core Windows functionality?)

It actually is, introduced in Windows 8, it's just taken devs ages to actually start using it (Notepad only got it last year, 12 years after it was introduced)

Sleipnir says hi!

the drivers and communications to talk to printers are all closed source

That hasn't stopped CUPS

True, that'd definitely make it a lot more viable to hold corporations to account.

It's an easy license to reason about, allows for basically any project to use it, and you don't need to worry about trying to enforce it (Because the GPL is only as good as your lawyers are)

Bugs crawling into his underpants and having a nibble.