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I don't think it's safe to generalize "x is slow and electron, y is fast and native" to mean "native is fast". Electron lowering barrier to entry also means it'

I don't think it's safe to generalize "x is slow and electron, y is fast and native" to mean "native is fast". Electron lowering barrier to entry also means it's used by projects who aren't going to carefully profile their app no matter what, so the same app written as a native app would also be garbage. At least some of it is "correlation not causation" And for your chat example, when I was at IBM the Sametime chat native app couldn't even accept single line incoming text without grinding a several thousand dollar machine to a halt. Bad software is going to be bad no matter what language it's written in.

pseudalopex 6y ago
Electron lowers barriers for people who know web development already. Not generally. Lotus apps were known for being unusually slow. Visual Studio Code is known for being unusually fast for an Electron app. And it still chokes on files Sublime Text handles easily.
epr 6y ago
"native is fast" is a statement of fact that is not open to debate. That fact is obvious to anyone who understands enough about compilers. The real question is "Are the tradeoffs between native and $portable_platform worth it?", which is generally subjective.