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I'd be more interested in seeing Electron apps on ChromeOS before Android apps, not expecting that to happen mind you, Electron on ChromeOS probably does nothin
by jbigelow76 10y ago
I'd be more interested in seeing Electron apps on ChromeOS before Android apps, not expecting that to happen mind you, Electron on ChromeOS probably does nothing to move the Google ecosystem forward.
- izacus 10y agoI guess people want more than 45 minutes of battery out of their Chromebooks.
- old-gregg 10y agoCould not agree more. Electron apps do not feel like desktop apps at all, they're closer to VMs in how they start, how they stop and how much resources they require.
- pfg 10y agoNot to take anything away from your comment (I certainly agree that a lot of Electron apps perform significantly worse than their native counterparts), but I thought this statement was funny in this context given that we're comparing Electron apps to ones written in Java, which used to get the same kind of complaints.
- cozzyd 10y agoFor some reason that I do not care enough to figure out, the Slack "native" Linux application uses something like 5 GB of RAM on my desktop.
- city41 10y agoAre you certain it's Electron based? The OSX Slack app is built with MacGap.
- imtringued 10y agoMaybe it's time to upgrade your laptop /s
- jbigelow76 10y agoYo dawg, I heard you like web technologies so I put an Electron app in your Chrome OS so you can kill your battery with 20 concurrent unkillable Chrome threads [1] [1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/xzibit-yo-dawg (extremely tenuous meme ref going here)
- lawnchair_larry 10y agoThat would be absolutely terrible.
- city41 10y agoIt's a tough fit as Electron apps have access to all of nodejs. Which is a very different philosophy from ChromeOS which keeps its apps very sandboxed.