Electron

In today's GitHub Trending: SimpleX Chat — a messenger with no user IDs of any kind; Ventoy — drop any ISO onto a USB stick and boot it, no reflashing; fzf — the fuzzy finder half your shell shortcuts depend on; and Electron, the runtime behind Slack, VSCode and Discord.

Not one AI repo made the cut, and the newest project here is six years old. Two are trending beside live trust fights: Ventoy over the unauditable binary blobs in its source tree, Electron over an update that froze all of macOS Tahoe.

The bundled Chromium backend is optional, but the libcef.dll alone accounts for 247 MB of that build. The whole pitch is that business logic lives in TypeScript instead of Tauri's Rust and Electron's stack. A game dev still thinks it eats Tauri's lunch; another tester took a quick drive and walked away unimpressed.

The recurring diagnosis: the bloat is architectural, not algorithmic. Bundling Chromium to ship a chat app is the problem, not your choice of data structure.

Where optimization will actually happen, per a big-tech engineer in the thread: server-side, where RAM is a line item, and mostly by 'stop doing stupid stuff', not fancy algorithms.