The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

Post by timpera » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 8:07 PM UTC

Post by cpursley » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

Post by sudo_cowsay » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 8:31 PM UTC

cpursley wrote: post #3

I still don’t understand why with all their cash these companies dont redo their apps in Rust or native. They are all so heavy and dog slow. There are already some very fast cross platform (wasm too!) libraries that can do what poppler does as well as parse and produce various office file formats. Because 2gb is crazy town, these things could be around 100mb, just throw some tokens at the problem.

Post by nomel » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

pseudosavant wrote: post #2

Is that what it is using to render and manipulate MS Office documents? That'd explain the poor rendering of some of my files. Bundling all of LibreOffice seems like a pretty huge dependency.

Post by nomel » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 8:35 PM UTC

cpursley wrote: post #3

I still don’t understand why with all their cash these companies dont redo their apps in Rust or native. They are all so heavy and dog slow. There are already some very fast cross platform (wasm too!) libraries that can do what poppler does as well as parse and produce various office file formats. Because 2gb is crazy town, these things could be around 100mb, just throw some tokens at the problem.