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Electron apps are also horrible on the Mac (and probably everywhere else too). Buggy, bloated resource hogs with nonstandard and limited UI and incredibly high
by jacobolus 8y ago
Electron apps are also horrible on the Mac (and probably everywhere else too). Buggy, bloated resource hogs with nonstandard and limited UI and incredibly high input latency for simple actions.
As a Mac user, when I hear “Electron app” I think “company that was too lazy/cheap to make a real Mac app.”
- dylan604 8y agoAlso, if Electron apps are just a packaged up webpage, could they even do things like run shell scripts locally? I'm also wanting to allow the user to browse for a file and have the full path intact instead of just the name of the file a browser would return.
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoNot only that, but they have pervasive cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that are now exposing the user to remote code execution! Also, they tend to have out of date dependencies, and are vulnerable to traditional code execution exploits that were fixed in upstream chrome long prior.
- gwilkes 8y agoHmm, I don't know about this. VS Code is an Electron app and I'm not sure if it would benefit that much from being a "real" Mac app. I much prefer that is it consistent across platforms. I do prefer Terminal.app to Hyper though. I wouldn't mind if Slack had a native app but I'm not too bothered by it.
- tomc1985 8y agoThe VS code team has spent an inordinate amount of time optimizing their Electron usage to achieve some semblance of performance. VS Code is nice but it is still slower than Sublime, let alone Notepad++, Textmate, or Pluma/GTKedit
- jlarocco 8y agoI can vouch that they're terrible on Linux, too. It's a lazy, corner cutting way to build a cross platform app, and it shows.