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Never used electron but I did see threads on how it’s very bloated. Are there other issues?

• thu2111 6y ago
  Electron is Chrome and Chrome itself is pretty tightly optimised for what it does. The issue isn't actually Electron so much as using a platform designed for typesetting for making complex GUI apps, a task for which it was never designed and isn't particularly good at. But. That said. Whilst I'm no big fan of web apps, there are good reasons they're so prevalent. It's not merely about developer convenience. Native GUI toolkits can appear artificially performant because they're required by the OS and thus almost always resident, vs cross platform toolkits that may be used by only one app at a time. When you open the lid though the gap between an engine like Blink and something like Qt, JavaFX or Cocoa isn't that big. They're mostly doing similar things in similar ways. The big cost on the web is the DOM+CSS but CSS has proven popular with devs, so native toolkits increasingly implement it or something like it.
  • mattkevan 6y ago
    > Chrome itself is pretty tightly optimised for what it does. My laptop battery would disagree. I get about an hour and a half with Chrome/Electron, four or five without.
    • thu2111 6y ago
      Which laptop is that? Note: I didn't say the web itself is highly optimal. Just that for a web browser, Chrome is pretty thoroughly optimised.
      • higerordermap 6y ago
        It appears to me that chrome is perfectly optimized for speed at cost of memory and power.