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> 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'

> 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 ago
Depends 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.