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I'll add to the Electron hating bandwagon. Not every native app is good and often the UI and design feels crappy. I mean this was the case for decades. But I wi

I'll add to the Electron hating bandwagon. Not every native app is good and often the UI and design feels crappy. I mean this was the case for decades. But I will still prefer crappy looking performant app over nice looking sluggish electron app. I really really would not want to use a "productivity" type of application that is made in Electron but I also know that many people do not mind. This said we are again in the era where it does not matter to most of the users. If it would people would stop using Atom/VScode and others. We all know that there is not a more cost effective way of building multiplatform apps (all things considered). We will have to cope with this as long as there is not real competition.

siddhant 9y ago
On a related note - are there any frameworks you could use to write native-ish Mac apps without knowing Objective C or Swift?
- pixelmonk 9y ago
  RubyMotion
  - holydude 9y ago
    Also Xamarin
- M4v3R 9y ago
  QT creates native apps, although by default the UI is different than people usually expect from Mac apps.
AlphaWeaver 9y ago
Atom and VSCode are different beasts! The team at Microsoft has done some serious performance work on Code IIRC and it runs like native on my machine, compared to Atom which is still slow.
- devopsproject 9y ago
  opening files gives me minor Eclipse IDE flashbacks
francisl 9y ago
what do you find sluggish with this electron app? I just tested it agains sourceTree, which is native, and I can't see any differences. It loads as fast, navigation and selection take the exact same time to load. The only difference, github desktop eat 200mb instead of 60mb for sourcetree. At the end of the day I will still use the command line, except for diff. But for a git gui, I can't really see what you mean by sluggish.
- Too 9y ago
  Sorry but sourcetree isn't exactly the best benchmark for native performance. Quite the contrary actually. It is the worst piece software i've ever used, just staging a file can take like 10 seconds. I've experienced this on multiple computers and i'm far from the only one with these problems: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sourcetree+slow https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sourcetree+slow Such a shame because it's one of the few GUI apps for git that actually looks good and has nice workflow.

siddhant 9y ago

On a related note - are there any frameworks you could use to write native-ish Mac apps without knowing Objective C or Swift?

pixelmonk 9y ago
RubyMotion
- holydude 9y ago
  Also Xamarin
M4v3R 9y ago
QT creates native apps, although by default the UI is different than people usually expect from Mac apps.

AlphaWeaver 9y ago

Atom and VSCode are different beasts! The team at Microsoft has done some serious performance work on Code IIRC and it runs like native on my machine, compared to Atom which is still slow.

devopsproject 9y ago
opening files gives me minor Eclipse IDE flashbacks

francisl 9y ago

what do you find sluggish with this electron app? I just tested it agains sourceTree, which is native, and I can't see any differences. It loads as fast, navigation and selection take the exact same time to load. The only difference, github desktop eat 200mb instead of 60mb for sourcetree. At the end of the day I will still use the command line, except for diff. But for a git gui, I can't really see what you mean by sluggish.

Too 9y ago
Sorry but sourcetree isn't exactly the best benchmark for native performance. Quite the contrary actually. It is the worst piece software i've ever used, just staging a file can take like 10 seconds. I've experienced this on multiple computers and i'm far from the only one with these problems: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sourcetree+slow https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sourcetree+slow Such a shame because it's one of the few GUI apps for git that actually looks good and has nice workflow.