[erlang-questions] GUI development with Erlang
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Fri Dec 8 10:53:20 CET 2017
On 2017年12月08日 金曜日 08:50:02 Attila Rajmund Nohl wrote:
> 2017-12-07 21:51 GMT+01:00 Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED>:
> >
> > Hello world (or rather a little window with a couple of buttons)
> > in Qt is 33KB - only 3484 times smaller.
> >
> > Which probably explain why Qt is more popular for building apps than
> > Electron.
> >
> > Being an old timer I recall a time when the entire OS including the
> > windowing system and a large number of applications all fitted in
> > under 640KB :-)
> >
> > Where did we go wrong ?
>
> I believe back in those days we were using displays with 320x200
> pixels, 8 bits color depth. Nowadays we're using 1680x1050 with 32
> bits color depth. Instead of 64 KB now it's takes more than 7 MB for a
> single display frame.
In the graphics controller's state, not your program.
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