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> It's an Electron app, but it is built to use as little RAM as possible, when I run it on my old Macbook Air, it consumes only around 300mb of RAM maximum I f

• muszc-master 8y ago
  That is maximum, normal is around 130 - 170 mb
  • ekianjo 8y ago
    I think the point is that it's better to have something using the native widgets of your OS if possible. It carries much less footprint and it integrates with your OS much more nicely in the end. Webapps running in Electron is just becoming too commonplace.
    • RussianCow 8y ago
      That also means building a separate UI for every supported OS, which isn't usually feasible for a single developer.
      • majewsky 8y ago
        https://qt.io https://qt.io
        • sincerely 8y ago
          Just an fyi, it looks like you need to include the www for the link to load.
        • RussianCow 8y ago
          Qt also isn't truly native (it renders its own UI components) and shares many of Electron's drawbacks, so it's only marginally better (and means you have to learn an entirely new platform if you're already familiar with web dev).
          • ekianjo 8y ago
            > marginally better Not in terms of resources (CPU/RAM). It's way better than Electron.
      • s73v3r_ 8y ago
        I've done it.
        • RussianCow 8y ago
          I didn't say it's impossible (I've also done it), but for something that's not a full-time job/project, it's a lot of extra work that could be avoided by simply using Electron, especially if you are already familiar with web development but don't have any experience with any of the native platforms.
          • s73v3r_ 8y ago
            But the poster did say this was a full-time project. And I don't believe that only having experience in web development is a good enough excuse for shoehorning web dev things everywhere else.
            • RussianCow 8y ago
              You're right, I missed the OP saying that. But I still disagree: prior experience with a platform is a great reason for using it. Maybe not for a company with lots of resources, like Slack or Microsoft, but definitely for a small team or individual developer. Any time you would have spent learning a new development platform can instead be spent building new features!
• sp332 8y ago
  How much RAM does your mail client use?
  • BeetleB 8y ago
    I use notmuch with Emacs - so very little. Before that I used mutt - also very little.
    • sp332 8y ago
      Does that support HTML email and images? If not, it seems like a different domain entirely. Other people in this thread have posted Thunderbird numbers and they're in the ballpark. After all, it is rendered in Gecko similarly to how ivelope is rendered in Electron.
      • ams6110 8y ago
        Not directly. You can configure w3m to display HTML email, and it does a nice job within the constraints of text mode. Most normal mail, even with tables, renders well. If you get something really crazy you can pipe the message to a graphical web browser to view. Native Emacs in a GUI can also show inline images (but not when running in a terminal, obviously).
      • hjek 8y ago
        Remote images in email is an anti-feature[0]. And if the images are attached to the email, why not just use an image viewer? Does your email client support video playback? [0]: https://senglehardt.com/papers/pets18_email_tracking.pdf https://senglehardt.com/papers/pets18_email_tracking.pdf
        • sp332 8y ago
          That's fine, but there's no point comparing RAM usage between completely different apps like video players and email clients.
        • jonnycomputer 8y ago