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It's a complete garbage. Take a look at applications like Slack - they are super heavy in size, memory and CPU consumption. Even the arguably fastest applicati
by romanovcode 9y ago
It's a complete garbage. Take a look at applications like Slack - they are super heavy in size, memory and CPU consumption.
Even the arguably fastest applications that are built with Electron (VS Code) are very slow if you compare them with native applications.
- harryf 9y agoVS Code is a great example... resource hungry it may be but as an app, it's a huge success (based on the Github extension for example that has over 6 million installs - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.GitHubExtensionforVisualStudio https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.G...). It would seem like building desktop apps with Electron is a big boost productivity wise (shorter learning curves, quicker time to working app) than older alternatives (Java, .NET etc, MFC etc.). If that assumption is correct, then it's trade-off against resource is worth it: get working but resource hungry app quickly in the hands of real users vs. take more time building something resource efficient but with user-validation still to do.