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The native client they were referring to was mIRC, which does much less than Slack does. A better comparison might be Discord, which performs much better than S
by anchpop 7y ago
The native client they were referring to was mIRC, which does much less than Slack does. A better comparison might be Discord, which performs much better than Slack and is also written in Electron. VSCode, written in Electron, performs much better for me than Visual Studio (a native app), but I wouldn't use that as proof that Electron is faster than native apps because Visual Studio does so much more
- driverdan 7y agoThe major differences I can think of off the top of my head are threading, reactions, voice chat, and history. Voice chat is the only one that should use significantly more resources than mIRC.
- entropicdrifter 7y agoDon't forget screen-share and video chat
- spookthesunset 7y ago> Voice chat is the only one that should use significantly more resources than mIRC. And you, without knowing all the product requirements and technical constraints, know this exactly how?