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I upvoted you because it's easy to forget that, outside the US and a few western countries, most people use Windows (even design professionals). In some of thos
by rudi-c 7y ago
I upvoted you because it's easy to forget that, outside the US and a few western countries, most people use Windows (even design professionals). In some of those countries, the price point of Macs make them a non-option. As a result, it's been harder for them to have access to design tools which have often been Mac-only.
Furthermore, with modern Javascript JITs, performance issues are generally not easily summarized as "it's Electron". VSCode is the typical example of an Electron app with good performance.
Performance issues often have to do with specific operations needing to be optimized rather than some general multiplier. At times, it's been faster than Sublime for me, because Sublime happened to do something inefficient (e.g. trying to syntax-highlight a very large log file, whereas VSCode preferred to bail). I'm sure with infinite resources, native apps can be faster than Electron ones, but almost never do application developers have the resources to invest to get that far.
Disclaimer: I work on design tools
- enobrev 7y agoAs a linux user, I also appreciate Electron apps over nothing at all. Of course I understand the overall disdain for them, but in my world it's a new app I would have not had the opportunity to use otherwise.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoThat definitely isn’t true in China, or even in Japan. Mac has a pretty good market penetration rate for the design field in Asia at least.
- erklik 7y agoAsia isn't just China or Japan. India, and other peripheral countries don't have high Mac penetration.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoBut in the design industry? I don’t know many Indian designers, but the few I’ve met in Bangalore have all had Macs.
- erklik 7y agoEven the design teams use Windows. I am sure bigger companies provide macs but the vast majority will use Windows simply because its cheap and easy to get.
- pault 7y agoYou might be surprised to learn that some people inside of the US use Windows too (even design professionals)!