I set up his doc file in Google Docs, and… When I type anything in the doc file, it takes seconds to see it on screen. The doc file size was ~30 MB,

Did we lose our way in making efficient software? — ~30 MB doc file vs browser

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2024-04-28 16:30:03

I set up his doc file in Google Docs, and… When I type anything in the doc file, it takes seconds to see it on screen. The doc file size was ~30 MB, and Chrome and Google Docs couldn’t handle it.

After this, I kept thinking about today’s software standards. Are we going backward about performance-wise software development? Are the newest, cool, modern tools, frameworks, and languages taking us backward efficiency-wise?

It looks like the hardware specs are increased to handle these types of web apps, browsers were unnecessary If we had pure native apps only. Like, why the mobile phones need to have 8 or 16 GB RAM?

The web needs native rendering instead of some UI rendering engine wrappers. You can’t open a 33 MB Word file in Google Docs on a well-spec laptop because the browser needs more memory and CPU usage.

I think we lost our way of developing optimized, efficient, and performance-wise applications. We need to solve this issue. Even the 2K of RAM Apollo computer (1966) took humanity to the moon, but you can’t work on a ~30 MB doc file in a browser in 2024.