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Thanks, this is the "real" changelog. I wish projects didn't waste these great PR opportunities. There should be a blog post written by a human for human consum

Thanks, this is the "real" changelog. I wish projects didn't waste these great PR opportunities. There should be a blog post written by a human for human consumption that explains why we should be excited.

MBCook 8y ago
As someone who doesn’t follow Electron even that is worthless to me. Is there a significant speed/memory usage change? Is the install smaller? Some new features that people want? I don’t know. And I’m not going to read the names of dozens of tickets to try to find out.
- LeoNatan25 8y ago
  > Is there a significant speed/memory usage change? Is the install smaller? Some new features that people want? No, it still packages two different runtime environments, one of which is a browser, which, in turn, is basically an OS.
  - MBCook 8y ago
    I know it’s not going to be native speed. Every. But I thought maybe it was 10% faster or something due to an updated JS engine. (Just a guess at a possible feature, not meant to be true)
    - Ajedi32 8y ago
      Well, they updated to a new version of V8. So that's about 8 months worth of JS optimizations and new language features right there. The change log doesn't really do a good job of highlighting that though, it just says "Upgraded from v8 6.1.534.41 to 6.6.346.32."
      - MBCook 8y ago
        I figured it would include the latest version, but 6.1 to 6.6 is meaningless numbers to me. In a list of this style it makes sense, I just wish this was an announcement that said ‘we changed/added X, Y, and Z. V8 has been updated to a version with a faster GC. MacOS looks more native. And (other cool change)”. Just a little paragraph like that would be great.
- orange8 8y ago
  As someone who doesn't follow or even like electron from the sounds of it, why do you expect anything about their release log to be worth anything to you?
  - MBCook 8y ago
    I like knowing what’s going on. I’m know I’m using a few electron apps that would benefit from performance enhancements. But some open source projects (like this apparently) announcennew releases in such a way that only Biden intimately familiar with the project can tell what changed. And it makes it very hard to start following the project.
huskyr 8y ago
Yes, a nice release blog post can be so much more than just a list of closed tickets. I think the WordPress team usually does a good job, e.g. https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/tipton/ https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/tipton/

MBCook 8y ago

As someone who doesn’t follow Electron even that is worthless to me. Is there a significant speed/memory usage change? Is the install smaller? Some new features that people want? I don’t know. And I’m not going to read the names of dozens of tickets to try to find out.

LeoNatan25 8y ago
> Is there a significant speed/memory usage change? Is the install smaller? Some new features that people want? No, it still packages two different runtime environments, one of which is a browser, which, in turn, is basically an OS.
- MBCook 8y ago
  I know it’s not going to be native speed. Every. But I thought maybe it was 10% faster or something due to an updated JS engine. (Just a guess at a possible feature, not meant to be true)
  - Ajedi32 8y ago
    Well, they updated to a new version of V8. So that's about 8 months worth of JS optimizations and new language features right there. The change log doesn't really do a good job of highlighting that though, it just says "Upgraded from v8 6.1.534.41 to 6.6.346.32."
    - MBCook 8y ago
      I figured it would include the latest version, but 6.1 to 6.6 is meaningless numbers to me. In a list of this style it makes sense, I just wish this was an announcement that said ‘we changed/added X, Y, and Z. V8 has been updated to a version with a faster GC. MacOS looks more native. And (other cool change)”. Just a little paragraph like that would be great.
orange8 8y ago
As someone who doesn't follow or even like electron from the sounds of it, why do you expect anything about their release log to be worth anything to you?
- MBCook 8y ago
  I like knowing what’s going on. I’m know I’m using a few electron apps that would benefit from performance enhancements. But some open source projects (like this apparently) announcennew releases in such a way that only Biden intimately familiar with the project can tell what changed. And it makes it very hard to start following the project.

huskyr 8y ago

Yes, a nice release blog post can be so much more than just a list of closed tickets. I think the WordPress team usually does a good job, e.g. https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/tipton/ https://wordpress.org/news/2017/11/tipton/