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  • I wasn’t thinking about applets but more about full-blown libcosmic applications.

    Gnome Circle bas a lot of very simple apps that do just 1 thing and weight a couple MB each at worst.

    With iced such an ecosystem would be at 20MB per app, so simple " don’t 1 thing and do it right" apps would be less scalable. And I doubt you would want to have all of gnome circle as a multicall binary.






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    9 months ago

    This is not relevant to this specific post but does anyone know how if the static linking used in Rust is an issue with cosmic?

    The last time I tried building a small app with Iced it was pretty bing (20MB) even though it didn’t do much. On the other hand a GTK app in rust easily fits within 5MB.

    Anyway I’m thrilled to try cosmic out as soon as it reached the Arch repos.







  • It’s not technical and more political.

    Google is a surveillance company with a huge impact on web standards thanks to its insane market share. Apple on its side uses its forced monopoly to prevent websites from competing with its app store. Gecko depends on Mozilla that depends on google for 90% of its revenue, and is today a good “look we’re not a monopoly” excuse for google.

    I don’t think people want a new engine because the current ones don’t work. They want a new engine because they want the web to be truly open.