You have no idea what kind of technical debt is hiding below the surface. I don’t either, but any non-trivial application has some, and hasn’t Galaxy been around for a while? It tends to accumulate.
Either way, I see it as a good sign when a company takes the time to modernize a piece of software, and moving to linux sounds like a great opportunity to do that.
Myeah. Makes it sound like they built a new client quickly without future proofing it because the older client was hard to work with, only to create a new hard to work with pile of code. Rewriting software rarely works out to be the silver bullet you imagined it to be. In my experience taking something crappy and piecemeal make focused attempts at improving small parts at a time.
There are cases of “architecture by happenstance” where a rewrite is your only path forward ultimately. Developer understanding of the specific business needs often evolves over time and poor choices were made in the beginning. You can rearchitect it in place over 5 years or you can do it in six months. It helps to have a leader with a strong vision and sense of where things went wrong the last time, though. If it’s just a bunch of “this app sucks. We need to rewrite it in .Net/NodeJS/etc.” then you’re doomed to fail in all the same ways.
I took place inbailed on a Java -> .Net migration where they were literally copying and changing syntax. It could’ve been a singular opportunity to fix a bunch of things, but was instead a waste of money and probably 60 developer years. I wonder if they ever finished…
It’s kind of sluggish. I don’t know if that is the case but it feels like an Electron application. Basically a website running in Chrome with an integrated backend.
Steam is completely browser based, if you scroll on your own games page, the “Steam Client WebHelper” uses all the CPU, the process steamwebhelper.exe sits in cef.win64, aka Chromium Embeded Framework.
I like Galaxy.
Curious though, modernise it? It’s pretty new as it is, did it come out the gate as old? Ha
You have no idea what kind of technical debt is hiding below the surface. I don’t either, but any non-trivial application has some, and hasn’t Galaxy been around for a while? It tends to accumulate.
Either way, I see it as a good sign when a company takes the time to modernize a piece of software, and moving to linux sounds like a great opportunity to do that.
We can see it if we use the API to extend the app. It’s not that bad, but the integrations are a pain for the user
The integrations are mostly all broken. I had to stop using it.
Myeah. Makes it sound like they built a new client quickly without future proofing it because the older client was hard to work with, only to create a new hard to work with pile of code. Rewriting software rarely works out to be the silver bullet you imagined it to be. In my experience taking something crappy and piecemeal make focused attempts at improving small parts at a time.
There are cases of “architecture by happenstance” where a rewrite is your only path forward ultimately. Developer understanding of the specific business needs often evolves over time and poor choices were made in the beginning. You can rearchitect it in place over 5 years or you can do it in six months. It helps to have a leader with a strong vision and sense of where things went wrong the last time, though. If it’s just a bunch of “this app sucks. We need to rewrite it in .Net/NodeJS/etc.” then you’re doomed to fail in all the same ways.
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took place inbailed on a Java -> .Net migration where they were literally copying and changing syntax. It could’ve been a singular opportunity to fix a bunch of things, but was instead a waste of money and probably 60 developer years. I wonder if they ever finished…It’s kind of sluggish. I don’t know if that is the case but it feels like an Electron application. Basically a website running in Chrome with an integrated backend.
I haven’t used the GOG client (might once they build a Linux one), but it can’t be worse than EGS, right?
Steam uses Electron and manages to make it… Not great, not terrible.
EGS runs Chromium inside Unreal Engine 4. Yes, you heard that right. A browser inside a game engine just to run a god damn game launcher.
Steam includes a browser for the store. But the user UI is native. And I think it’s fine.
Steam is extremely not fine as a ui, and you know it. It’s just great in the backend (probably because it’s not Electron…)
I actually like it. Especially the big picture mode on SteamDeck.
Steam is completely browser based, if you scroll on your own games page, the “Steam Client WebHelper” uses all the CPU, the process steamwebhelper.exe sits in cef.win64, aka Chromium Embeded Framework.
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework
While it embeds the browser, I don’t think it uses the web tech to draw the UI.
It bundled with a bunch of GTK and SDL libs.