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There is a huge different between not optimizing and giving decent perfs. Allowing video content, using images and a JS framework is alright. Not making sure t
by sametmax 9y ago
There is a huge different between not optimizing and giving decent perfs.
Allowing video content, using images and a JS framework is alright. Not making sure the first load is under 1mo is, however, unprofessional.
I get that some sites do need big pages: video tubes, big SPA, etc. But most sites are not youtube or facebook. If your blog post takes 3Mb to display text, it's doing it wrong.
- seanwilson 9y ago> There is a huge different between not optimizing and giving decent perfs. > If your blog post takes 3Mb to display text, it's doing it wrong. I agree if it's not much effort and it makes a big difference (e.g. to mobile users) you should make the optimisation. I'm more talking about people saying that instead of having one Electron app to support multiple platforms, a developer should be writing several native apps. The latter is a huge amount of development time to save a few 100MB of RAM that most users probably wouldn't notice anyway. Nice to have but it doesn't make business sense most of the time.
- sametmax 9y agoDepends for electron. First, 4 years old computers will feel the difference. Second, if your app is started a lot, the startup time will add up and be annoying. Third, if your app stays open a long time and you have several of them, they will end up eating from that 1Gb of RAM. It's really a bummer on low end computer. I got 32Gb of ram so I don't care, but my browser has 8. So if you have skype, chrome, thunderbird and an editor open, the new apps being electron or not will make a big difference.