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<fossy>doras: good catch, thanks

<fossy>stikonas[m]: do you have a link to gentoo stripping process?

<fossy>Piraty: nodejs can stay, lets just get rid of electron :P (/hj)

<Piraty>ACTION hands soap to fossy

<Piraty>please go wash your mouth

<Piraty>everybody hated flash

<Piraty>wait... is flash part of the bootstrap proj? ;)

<stikonas[m]>Neither flash nor electron are

<stikonas[m]>They are quite different though

<stikonas[m]>Flash was proprietary with poor free alternatives

<stikonas[m]>Electron is free and anybody can compile

<stikonas[m]>Yes technically I prefer native apps

<stikonas[m]>But that's nothing to do with ability to bootstrap them

<Piraty>i'm aware and just kidding

<muurkha>Electron is theoretically free, but in practice it's very difficult to modify it

<muurkha>just because of the enormous API surface area and humongous codebase

<stikonas>yes, but the same is true of chromium

<muurkha>not only is the same true of Chromium, it's literally the same API and codebase

<Piraty>also, electron is marketed as cross platform but in fact most electron applications suck to build, even more if the target arch is != x86_64

<stikonas>I've only tried building on x86_64...

<stikonas>the most annoying thing is that it's just another chomium to build, so takes the whole day on my old laptop

<stikonas>all those chromium variants are incompatible

<stikonas>ungoogled-chromium, electron, qtwebengine are already 3, soon I'll have to build qtwebengine for Qt6 too

<plasma41>joking, not joking

<muurkha>CP/M has its advantages; it can self-host, and now it's free software

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