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Out of curiosity I've downloaded the app and tried it, because everyone seemed to hate it. Bloated, slow, eats RAM like crazy they said. Everybody says it so it
by M4v3R 9y ago
Out of curiosity I've downloaded the app and tried it, because everyone seemed to hate it. Bloated, slow, eats RAM like crazy they said. Everybody says it so it must be true, right?
No. I was expecting a disaster and instead I got a nice little Git client (not really feature packed, but the advertised features worked as expected). It starts quite quickly (compared to GitKraken for instance which takes ~10 seconds on my machine). UI is very responsive. After few minutes of usage ate 120 MB of RAM which is less than Sublime Text which I also had running in the background (and compared to more than 500 MB used by Slack, also an Electron app). At idle it uses almost 0% CPU.
I have to say, I'm a bit disappointed. I was under impression that HN was better than that - issuing judgements before actually trying the bloody app.
Edit: To clarify - I am using version 1.0.0, on macOS 10.12.
- Exuma 9y agoA lot of people HAVE tried the app. It's extremely noticeable and inferior in regards to UI performance. The 4GB comment also isn't an exaggeration if an electron app is left on for all day (slack, etc)
- M4v3R 9y ago(copied my response from another thread) I left it running when I first wrote the comment. Went back to it just now, after nearly two hours, and the memory usage didn't increase. Still at 120-130 MB. My guess is that compared to Slack, Github app doesn't really do much when idle. Slack fetches user statuses, new messages, notifications and so on. When you have an open channel with ongoing conversations that will add up in the RAM. This app doesn't seem to do anything when idle, so the RAM usage doesn't increase.