for sure, its uncontroversial that there is overhead with JS and that when top performance is required this overhead can be too costly. but is this the reason

for sure, its uncontroversial that there is overhead with JS and that when top performance is required this overhead can be too costly. but is this the reason for a desktop music player to be lagging on a "pretty good system"? no way -- there's no real excuse for that. its just a shitty app. perhaps electron gives teams the impression they can just type npm in front of some stuff to turn their website into a performant desktop app -- not quite so ;)