I’m extremely angry about Sam Altman fucking over the RAM market.
Granted, WhatsApp native was not perfect, but it used less than 200MB of RAM and had smoother animations and faster load times. Unfortunately, Meta disbanded the team behind the native client as part of the layoffs and replaced WhatsApp with a WebView2-based solution, which uses seven times more RAM than the older native client.
But if there’s any silver lining in this shit, it may be that software vendors are forced to spend resources making their code more performant. Probably not, but we can hope.
Why would anyone use that trash app?
Would explain why you can’t move the taskbar.
People like to point at that this is a small issue, but to me it’s kind of indicative of everything. It should be simple, so why isn’t it? They know how much people want this, how important it is to customize your OS to your wants and needs and they just don’t do it. Because they don’t have to. It’s so disdainful.
Which is insane. Trillion dollar company, my ass
Why not just rewrite the C and C++ compilers to be better?
Remaking Windows using rust is not the worst idea. But doing it by relying almost completely on AI and an extremely small team (of people who may not be very proficient in Rust), that’s nothing but disaster in the making.
P.S. it’s not the best idea either, OG Windows code has a fairly solid base if you leave off the garbage the execs like to stuff in to it for “added value”.
It isn’t the implementation, it is the language specification.
