Post #2945573
2025-10-24 21:58 UTC
@CarbonCarrot@mastodon.social it's (for many) the "zeitgeist". Web technologies and/or scripting languages need much power if they used to build full blown applications. Javascript or Python is used in many Gnome apps. And since the whole gtk4 theming is based on css... it need many resources :) nevertheless it could be much worse (electron... like the win 11 task bar)
Enough ranting this night :) it's nevertheless absolutely awesome one has the choice what to use.
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@CarbonCarrot@mastodon.social 2025-10-24 22:00
@scops@social.tchncs.de that's actually react native 🤓 But yes, there are quite some webviews in that half-baked *nix operating system downloader
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@monster@tech.lgbt 2025-10-25 11:58
@scops@social.tchncs.de @CarbonCarrot@mastodon.social Just some quick corrections here: The language used to make GTK apps barely matters these days. The language calls into C API, so it will have C performance.CSS isn't inherently non-performant, it's something GTK implements. Libadwaita does have a very large style sheet, and parsing that amount of CSS is a genuine concern, but it isn't nearly as bad as you'd think it is.