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Smart asset loading, who needs that? Just stuff everything in RAM.
Both hardware and software are evolving backwards
I agree that video games have had technological regression, but what about hardware? That slowly but steadily continues to develop right?
You give them an inch, they'll take a mile. There's no real desire to make stuff efficient when people just accept it.
A different example is that if you said 15 years ago that all of your desktop programs would actually be running each in their own individual web browser, people would look at you like you're crazy. Now it's somehow normal.
Which programs would that be?
Not a programmer, but I think this is referring to electron, or things like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_using_Electron
If you have a chat app like Discord or Beeper, browser. Spotify, Deezer? Browser.
Microsoft teams, every other music streaming app (even feishin), whatsapp desktop, onepassword, microsoft outlook (new), balena etcher, the windows 11 start menu...