It's very easy to make a nice application with Electron, but very hard to make one that actually is large and compatible. I mean the system requirements for AO

It's very easy to make a nice application with Electron, but very hard to make one that actually is large and compatible. I mean the system requirements for AOL Instant messenger in 2008 was 300 MHz CPU, 256 RAM, and 250MB of hd space. Compare that to Slack - they don't list the system requirements but I am sure you all know it probably demands at least 1gb of RAM and will use all of it: https://medium.com/@matt.at.ably/wheres-all-my-cpu-and-memory-gone-the-answer-slack-9e5c39207cab https://medium.com/@matt.at.ably/wheres-all-my-cpu-and-memor... Let's face it we are reaching a new dark-age of computer programming away from static typing and caring about performance to a hellscape of ECMA script... https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32 https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32