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I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage,

I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage, not their app that they've spent a lot of effort on. It probably feels very demoralizing when people instantly disregard your app due to Electron's resource usage. Electron is a very easy way to develop applications, and it's definitely doing something right. I've written Gtk (my preference) and Qt for ages, and developing stuff in Electron was mind-blowingly fast, trivial to debug, and trivial to produce packaged binaries for multiple platforms. It's very difficult to achieve a similar development experience with native toolkits, and I think we'll continue seeing more Electron apps until native toolkits offer a comparable development experience.

PerusingAround 10y ago
Ultimately what matters is the user experience, not your development experience.
- ue_ 10y ago
  Isn't some kind of balance important? You want to have code that you can maintain and that others can work on, but also efficiency. I don't know if it's one of those 'unobtainable golden middle' things, but I feel as though C didn't strike a bad place with regard to system programming. Unfortunately I've found graphical toolkits just really unpleasant and unportable to work with. I would much rather write for the web. However I have never used Electron.
kentt 10y ago
They aren't being criticized for writing an electron app. The criticism is that they've written something that should be lightweight but isn't. Further, it probably is not useful unless it is lightweight.
beardicus 10y ago
> I feel bad for folks using Electron. Me too, so I've started down voting such comments. At this point they are off topic and distract from actual useful feedback. OP: your app looks pretty nice. I'd suggest offering the choice of a more muted tray icon (dark on light, and light on dark).
- amitmerchant 10y ago
  Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I'll surely look into it.

PerusingAround 10y ago

Ultimately what matters is the user experience, not your development experience.

ue_ 10y ago
Isn't some kind of balance important? You want to have code that you can maintain and that others can work on, but also efficiency. I don't know if it's one of those 'unobtainable golden middle' things, but I feel as though C didn't strike a bad place with regard to system programming. Unfortunately I've found graphical toolkits just really unpleasant and unportable to work with. I would much rather write for the web. However I have never used Electron.

kentt 10y ago

They aren't being criticized for writing an electron app. The criticism is that they've written something that should be lightweight but isn't. Further, it probably is not useful unless it is lightweight.

beardicus 10y ago

> I feel bad for folks using Electron. Me too, so I've started down voting such comments. At this point they are off topic and distract from actual useful feedback. OP: your app looks pretty nice. I'd suggest offering the choice of a more muted tray icon (dark on light, and light on dark).

amitmerchant 10y ago
Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I'll surely look into it.