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The problem with Electron (and other Chromium/WebKit wrappers) is that they produce apps that are a lot heavier than those built with native UI toolkits (Cocoa,
by kitsunesoba 11y ago
The problem with Electron (and other Chromium/WebKit wrappers) is that they produce apps that are a lot heavier than those built with native UI toolkits (Cocoa, Qt, GTK+, etc). That might be ok for some types of apps, but I wouldn’t want a git client that requires resources on the order of a Chrome tab (300MB+ memory and high CPU usage).