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The browser is where the hundreds of megabytes vanish to when you use a JS app instead of a native one. That might still be better (I'm undecided, personally),

The browser is where the hundreds of megabytes vanish to when you use a JS app instead of a native one. That might still be better (I'm undecided, personally), but it's worth recognizing that heavy native app is still there, just shared with a lot of other JS apps.

Drew_ 6y ago
You could say the same about system libraries/binaries every native app needs to run
- choward 6y ago
  Native apps can share libraries at run time. I'm no electron expert but I'm assuming electron apps only can share dependencies at build time at which point they would be copied into the executable so they really wouldn't be sharing.
- NateEag 6y ago
  Valid point, for sure.