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Electron... It's always so upsetting to see a tray widget require hundreds of megabytes of RAM to run.

by Ezhik 10y ago

sdflkd 10y ago
What is a less resource intensive but similarly easy to use tool that would let you make desktop apps?
- throwaway2016a 10y ago
  Qt is actually pretty easy to work with. Really, though, I would prefer to use Electron. It would be great if they could find a way for multiple electron apps to share a runtime so it would save both memory and reduce the download size.
  - mattnewton 10y ago
    ..like browser tabs? Obviously not the exact ui desired here, but an extension/bookmark would work, no?
    - milankragujevic 10y ago
      Chrome apps? Maybe not, since I'm not sure they're still alive, but I like(d) them.
    - throwaway2016a 10y ago
      Not exactly. At least not until the browser has APIs to interact with more parts of the operating systems. The only times I've considered writing an Electron app vs a web app (which is my day job) is when it would have benefitted from an offline-first and/or needed system resources like tray icons, interacting with other desktop apps, reading system-level stats, executing native code, etc.
- Jonovono 10y ago
  For real. I made http://plusaroo.com/ http://plusaroo.com/ recently. Mine seems to use ~ 30mb. As much as it seemed like overkill to use Electron for it, it just made the most sense for me. Hopefully those faults with electron can be addressed.
- richev 10y ago
  C# & WinForms
  - bbcbasic 10y ago
    Tut tut so pedestrian
DiabloD3 10y ago
I'm also going to have to mention this. I have zero interest in such a simple tray app that uses nodejs+Electron. It's like the worst of both worlds. All of this could be done with standard C++ MFC and use literally no ram.
santaclaus 10y ago
I suppose someone could make a system tray framework in Electron where each widget is a plugin. But yea, even 10 system tray widgets taking hundreds of megs of RAM seems a bit overkill.

Electron... It's always so upsetting to see a tray widget require hundreds of megabytes of RAM to run.

by Ezhik 10y ago

Electron... It's always so upsetting to see a tray widget require hundreds of megabytes of RAM to run.

sdflkd 10y ago

What is a less resource intensive but similarly easy to use tool that would let you make desktop apps?

throwaway2016a 10y ago
Qt is actually pretty easy to work with. Really, though, I would prefer to use Electron. It would be great if they could find a way for multiple electron apps to share a runtime so it would save both memory and reduce the download size.
- mattnewton 10y ago
  ..like browser tabs? Obviously not the exact ui desired here, but an extension/bookmark would work, no?
  - milankragujevic 10y ago
    Chrome apps? Maybe not, since I'm not sure they're still alive, but I like(d) them.
  - throwaway2016a 10y ago
    Not exactly. At least not until the browser has APIs to interact with more parts of the operating systems. The only times I've considered writing an Electron app vs a web app (which is my day job) is when it would have benefitted from an offline-first and/or needed system resources like tray icons, interacting with other desktop apps, reading system-level stats, executing native code, etc.
Jonovono 10y ago
For real. I made http://plusaroo.com/ http://plusaroo.com/ recently. Mine seems to use ~ 30mb. As much as it seemed like overkill to use Electron for it, it just made the most sense for me. Hopefully those faults with electron can be addressed.
richev 10y ago
C# & WinForms
- bbcbasic 10y ago
  Tut tut so pedestrian

DiabloD3 10y ago

I'm also going to have to mention this. I have zero interest in such a simple tray app that uses nodejs+Electron. It's like the worst of both worlds. All of this could be done with standard C++ MFC and use literally no ram.

santaclaus 10y ago

I suppose someone could make a system tray framework in Electron where each widget is a plugin. But yea, even 10 system tray widgets taking hundreds of megs of RAM seems a bit overkill.