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The only program that seems to be doing rather well seems to be Visual Code. It's fast and responsive, and one of the main advantages of it using Electron is th

The only program that seems to be doing rather well seems to be Visual Code. It's fast and responsive, and one of the main advantages of it using Electron is that it got a fully cross-platform plugin system almost for free. Given the importance of that application in my daily work, I don't mind it using a few hundred MB ram. I have other critical tools running that consume way more than that. But that's about the only electron app I really like to use that I use on a daily basis. Many of the other things like slack, discord, spotify, ... are more of a nuisance, and are more 'background' applications for me. Justifying blowing a Gb or 2 of ram on these is hard. I currently already use Franz (also electron) to replace all the "chat" applications, which is tolerable given that it replaces a few things, but still not a huge fan.

LeoNatan25 7y ago
VSCode is bad too. Compare it to Notepad++ or BB Edit, it's no competition. VSCode looks out of place on any platform it runs on, is slow when compared to native editors, takes up a lot of RAM, practically useless when opening large log files, etc. People keep bringing that as a shining example, but it's bad on its own right. It's just less bad than the other Electron "software".
- rmsaksida 7y ago
  It's snappy compared to IDEs like Visual Studio or IntelliJ IDEA, slow compared to native editors like Sublime Text. I think it's unbeatable as a TypeScript IDE and that's what I use it for most of the time. When I need to open a large file, I use Sublime Text.