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> Many of us are sick of ... Not many enough to matter. > who cares BeCaUsE mAh BaLaNcE sHeEtS It is an actual concrete fact that in many (most?) cases the t
by lordlic 7y ago
> Many of us are sick of ...
Not many enough to matter.
> who cares BeCaUsE mAh BaLaNcE sHeEtS
It is an actual concrete fact that in many (most?) cases the total cost of developing and owning an Electron-powered app is going to be lower than a real native desktop application given that you can reuse the same code/people/skills you already employ on your website and mobile app. Building the same UI n times is crazy.
Are you just complaining about that fact or actually suggesting that we ignore it and stand up against "resource inflation" as a matter of principle? I can't imagine a startup CEO going before their board with a slide deck and saying "We're making progress on a unified app experience across web and mobile that should reduce our development costs. We were going to do the same thing for desktop too, but then we realized that Engineering Excellence™ meant we had to hire a whole new team of developers. No, the app isn't performance constrained, why do you ask? Sure, everyone else is using Electron but everyone else is wrong."
- fifticon 7y agoYou sound like one of the reasons the Epic Background Launcher takes up 293 MB of ram when idling in the background.. I was recently trying to figure out why my nephew's 16gig machine was running so slowly. It turned out, it was because he had just installed loads of crap like that. I can now see, what he really needed, was 32gig of RAM and 128 cores instead, to run your electron apps.