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Why is Slack still an Electron app? I stopped using it because it's so slow. Native apps are fast.
by maxharris 6y ago
Why is Slack still an Electron app? I stopped using it because it's so slow. Native apps are fast.
- onion2k 6y agoWhether an app is fast or not is usually down to the person who wrote it and their skill in optimizing code rather than the technology it was made with. For example, VSCode is Electron and it's pretty fast out of the box (so long as you've not weighed it down with plugins).
- maxharris 6y agoYou do have a point, but what about the combined overhead one suffers from running a lot of Electron apps all at once? This year, I dumped all of the Electron apps I used to use. I have also stopped developing for the browser altogether (I learned Swift and Metal for the project I'm working on), and my MacBook Pro is truly an unladen swallow now.
- jamil7 6y agoYou're mostly right, although people tend to hold VSCode up as an example and I don't personally find it to be fast app but it's fast in the context of Electron apps.
- aargh_aargh 6y agothe one-eyed man is king