Yeah it's pretty shocking how much CPU and memory Electron apps use. Used to be Java chat apps and IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ) were considered slow and bloated.

Yeah it's pretty shocking how much CPU and memory Electron apps use. Used to be Java chat apps and IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ) were considered slow and bloated. They're practically fleet footed compared to the new breed of web apps. As much as I love Slack, Visual Studio Code and Atom my maxed out MacBook Pro is at 50-100% CPU and paging into swap with all three open. If I send a few GIFs in Slack - temps hit 99C (never 100 for some reason) and my laptop sounds like a mini hovercraft. It's a little disheartening and really has me missing those big old Mac Pros which were silent no matter the task. JavaScript and the resulting apps are certainly enjoyable to code and use but damn does something need to change in terms of resource utilization.