Post by @scanlime@misc.name

imgui is a good example of marketing yourself to look better than the competition by aggressively misunderstanding what problem other guis are trying to solve

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@scanlime@misc.name 11 hr. ago

any gui could be "bloat free" if it had no interoperability or power management or internationalization constraints

abrasive

@abrasive@digipres.club 3 hr. ago

@scanlime what do you mean it isn't normal for a hex editor to have an FPS limit slider

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@scanlime@misc.name 47 min. ago

@abrasive i do love stuff like that sometimes, but like it's a very different problem space than a general purpose desktop/mobile gui is in

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@hailey@hails.org 11 hr. ago

@scanlime bloat free by doing full layout on every single frame whether or not the layout changed

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@scanlime@misc.name 10 hr. ago

@hailey i've been noticing this pattern where some level of worst-case-ish performance becomes normalized in a community (like doing everything every frame from games, or looking up everything by random hash in cryptoshit) and then they start marketing their thing as if this cost they've forgotten about is actually free

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@scanlime@misc.name 10 hr. ago

@hailey mmhmm

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