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The "electron is too slow" problem is really just a mask for the real "electron is eating into our desktop app market" problem. Or to put it another way FUD.
by orange8 6y ago
The "electron is too slow" problem is really just a mask for the real "electron is eating into our desktop app market" problem. Or to put it another way FUD.
- saagarjha 6y agoI assure you "Electron is slow" is not FUD. Electron is slow and has been measured to be slow many, many times. Perhaps "Electron is eating into our desktop app market" is a problem, but it is also possible that the real complaint is that "something slow is eating into the desktop app market".
- tamarind8 6y agoThe fact that an app built with electron may be fractions of a second slower than one built using native tech, does not change the fact that most of the people who keep on harping about this whenever electron is discussed are native app developers spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about a competing tech stack. And it is a big threat because it makes creating desktop apps accessible to millions more developers, and therefore cheaper and faster from a business point of view. So what is essentially an economic problem pretending to be a technical one. I moved from Notepad++ (screaming fast) to VS Code, and those micro-second differences in speed do not matter at all.