4 ms·
Well Slack is an electronjs app. I think developers are still chasing the ‘write once run anywhere’ Holy Grail. This time it’s JavaScript.
by 2muchcoffeeman 8y ago
Well Slack is an electronjs app.
I think developers are still chasing the ‘write once run anywhere’ Holy Grail. This time it’s JavaScript.
- bunderbunder 8y agoRunning in Electron accounts for a few tens of megabytes, tops. I'm not convinced it's really all that much worse than the runtime environments for popular interpreted and managed languages. The other 2-3GB (I'm not even kidding) seemed to be a result of keeping a copy every single attachment and Giphy image that anyone posts in memory, indefinitely. Like with any good memory leak, the solution was to bounce the application. I use vscode quite a bit, and it doesn't eat RAM in a way that seems reminiscent of what people like to blame on Electron apps. Perhaps what we like to lay at the feet of Electron is more appropriately blamed on there being a lot of JavaScript developers who haven't been sufficiently educated in how to manage memory.