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Electron can be a blessing for small teams building complex apps for multiple platforms. It’s a positive to have a single interface that runs on Mac, Windows, L
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
Electron can be a blessing for small teams building complex apps for multiple platforms. It’s a positive to have a single interface that runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, and even the web browser.
But it comes at a price of higher resource usage and slower apps. It’s not a big deal to wait a couple seconds to load something like VSCode when I’m going to leave it open and use it all day, but I don’t want to invoke all of that overhead for a simple password manager that gets opened and closed all day.
I really wish they’d focus on fast, lean native apps. They have the funding, a high price point, and even recurring revenue to fund it. This feels like an arbitrary decision that sounds good on paper but misses the fact that they’re best served by small, lean native apps.