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Why the hate for electron? I know that there are a bunch of shitty electron apps out there, but there are also great, fast and leightweight examples. Visual Stu
by moooo99 6y ago
Why the hate for electron? I know that there are a bunch of shitty electron apps out there, but there are also great, fast and leightweight examples. Visual Studio Code is easily one of the best desktop apps I've used (on Windows) and Discord is also built on electron and works very well.
Electron isn't necessarily bad, its primarly a matter of how good your implementation is.
- spideymans 6y ago1. Performance 2. It encourages developers to ignore platform-specific design idioms and features.
- bwoodruff 6y agoHave you found either of those applies to 1Password for Linux? If so we'd very much like to hear about it. Thanks! - Ben, 1Password
- pjmlp 6y agoAnd when we compare it with Notepad++ or Sublime it is quite clear the performance lost in the process. I only use VSCode for workflows I am obliged to. Microsoft's React Native team has benchmarks where Electron causes 300x performance drop versus React Native. Speaking of it, "Xbox app for PC gets speed boost, ditching Electron for React Native UWP" https://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-app-pc-gets-speed-boost-ditching-electron-react-native-uwp https://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-app-pc-gets-speed-boost-... I dream of the day that VSCode gets rebooted into React Native.
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- ubermonkey 6y ago>Why the hate for electron? Because it's terrible. It's slow and ponderous. I have yet to use something built on it that wasn't awful, and that INCLUDES VSCode.
- bwoodruff 6y agoHave you tried 1Password for Linux? - Ben, 1Password
- ubermonkey 6y agoNo reason to. I don't use desktop linux. I'm also actively looking to move away from 1P period because I don't want or need a subscription for every little app.