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This is good and all but anyone else see a problem with electron apps for everything? all these apps built with electron really clogging my ram.

yAnonymous 10y ago
It only uses slightly more memory than Eye Of Gnome. If that's the price I have to pay for desktop apps with a better UI, I'll pay it.
- mananvaghasiya 10y ago
  slight you say? eog 8.1MB vs lightgallery 60MB for same image file.
  - yAnonymous 10y ago
    Even when opening EoG without any image, it uses 25MB here. Are you using the values from the system monitor? Pretty sure those are not very accurate.
    - mananvaghasiya 10y ago
      yup 6.1MB confirmed with top, without image
oblio 10y ago
If Electron means that people actually make cross platform apps, I'm all for it. Slightly suboptimal apps are better than no apps or discontinued apps.
- mananvaghasiya 10y ago
  Me too, but there should be some way to share resources between them
  - oblio 10y ago
    Shouldn't that be the OS's task? My kernel knowledge is rusty but I remember reading about concepts such as DLL/SO sharing, memory page sharing, etc.
    - szastupov 10y ago
      This works for libraries/frameworks installed in a common place, like /usr/lib or /Library/Frameworks. But, all those apps ship their own copy of Electron, so there is no simple way for OS to share pages.
      - oblio 10y ago
        Well, then this seems more of a packaging problem than an actual tech problem. In an ideal world that would be the next step if the app reaches a large audience. I'm not sure that from the upstream developer's point of view the investment of limited resources into per-OS packaging is a good idea at this stage...
tdkl 10y ago
It solves the problem of people not upgrading their PCs. /s
- mananvaghasiya 10y ago
  for sure
mrmondo 10y ago
Javascript is the new Flash Player
- mananvaghasiya 10y ago
  I wouldn't blame JavaScript.
  - mrmondo 10y ago
    Lots of people didn't blame Adobe either...
- onion2k 10y ago
  JavaScript is becoming what Java set out to do, but in a way that works for users.
  - mrmondo 10y ago
    And not in a way for engineers that want to host applications, or people who care about single threaded web-frame apps chewing up their laptops battery and RAM.

yAnonymous 10y ago

It only uses slightly more memory than Eye Of Gnome. If that's the price I have to pay for desktop apps with a better UI, I'll pay it.

mananvaghasiya 10y ago
slight you say? eog 8.1MB vs lightgallery 60MB for same image file.
- yAnonymous 10y ago
  Even when opening EoG without any image, it uses 25MB here. Are you using the values from the system monitor? Pretty sure those are not very accurate.
  - mananvaghasiya 10y ago
    yup 6.1MB confirmed with top, without image

oblio 10y ago

If Electron means that people actually make cross platform apps, I'm all for it. Slightly suboptimal apps are better than no apps or discontinued apps.

mananvaghasiya 10y ago
Me too, but there should be some way to share resources between them
- oblio 10y ago
  Shouldn't that be the OS's task? My kernel knowledge is rusty but I remember reading about concepts such as DLL/SO sharing, memory page sharing, etc.
  - szastupov 10y ago
    This works for libraries/frameworks installed in a common place, like /usr/lib or /Library/Frameworks. But, all those apps ship their own copy of Electron, so there is no simple way for OS to share pages.
    - oblio 10y ago
      Well, then this seems more of a packaging problem than an actual tech problem. In an ideal world that would be the next step if the app reaches a large audience. I'm not sure that from the upstream developer's point of view the investment of limited resources into per-OS packaging is a good idea at this stage...

tdkl 10y ago

It solves the problem of people not upgrading their PCs. /s

mananvaghasiya 10y ago
for sure

mrmondo 10y ago

Javascript is the new Flash Player

mananvaghasiya 10y ago
I wouldn't blame JavaScript.
- mrmondo 10y ago
  Lots of people didn't blame Adobe either...
onion2k 10y ago
JavaScript is becoming what Java set out to do, but in a way that works for users.
- mrmondo 10y ago
  And not in a way for engineers that want to host applications, or people who care about single threaded web-frame apps chewing up their laptops battery and RAM.