4 ms·
> native apps don't look any different from Web/Electron apps But they feel way better. Electron apps have insane resource overhead and many minor imperfection
by qwerty456127 7y ago
> native apps don't look any different from Web/Electron apps
But they feel way better. Electron apps have insane resource overhead and many minor imperfection in behavior. I have never been willing to sacrifice aesthetics and ergonomics for performance yet Electron feels bloated beyond all reason even to me. The reasons I believe I could prefer a native app to a browser-based web app are performance and intuitiveness. Browser based often are too slow and have hard-to-find parts. Obviously wrapping a web app in Electron doesn't solve that.
- petilon 7y ago> But they feel way better. Electron apps have insane resource overhead and many minor imperfection in behavior. But apps written using Electron don't seem to be suffering for it. Examples: VS Code, Teams (both from Microsoft). What does that tell you?
- pseudalopex 7y agoHow many people use Teams by choice? Why is VS Code so much more popular than Atom?
- qwerty456127 7y agoPerhaps that means somebody at Microsoft has found a way to optimize the Electron runtime for VS Code. The VS Code fronted mostly is about displaying text - obviously there is a huge lot of inefficiencies you can optimize by excluding whole blocks of logic unnecessary for this kind of tasks.