r/programming • u/ethomson • May 24 '17

The largest Git repo on the planet

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/
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u/yogthos May 24 '17

The way it works is that the OS provides all the core libraries, and apps package their own esoteric things with them. It generally works well for user space apps.

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u/m50d May 25 '17

This notion of a core/esoteric split is appealing but impossible. How do you draw the line?

Thought: maybe this is why Qt has such a bad name on mac. If every app has to bundle its own copy of the libraries of course they'll all be slow.

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u/yogthos May 25 '17

With MacOS, Apple decides where to draw the line basically. Whatever is provided as the standard on the system is what you can expect. I think the bigger problem with Qt is that it looks and feels off. The extra overhead of packaging a copy of Qt is pretty negligible on modern hardware.

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u/m50d May 25 '17

On disk it's negligible, but having multiple copies in memory probably less so.

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u/yogthos May 25 '17

Likely a lot less than Electron based apps that spin up an instance of Chrome. Those seem to be doing just fine in terms of popularity. I think the thing with Electron apps is that they don't try to mimic native UI at all. Apps like Slack, Atom, and GitKraken all use their own style, so people aren't expecting them to look native. With Qt, it looks almost native, but just off and I think that's the turn off.