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There were many (and much better IMO) instant message multiplatform apps before Electron. The problem isn’t JavaScript, which these days is remarkably fast. It
by tambourine_man 7y ago
There were many (and much better IMO) instant message multiplatform apps before Electron.
The problem isn’t JavaScript, which these days is remarkably fast. It’s that every app loads almost an entire OS in order to run. Process isolation, layout engine, text rendering, 2D/3D graphics, audio…