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They literally put "why we use electron" as their first point clearly in defense of the expected onslaught of HNers who were going to attack them for it. > and
by staticassertion 5y ago
They literally put "why we use electron" as their first point clearly in defense of the expected onslaught of HNers who were going to attack them for it.
> and all of their comments within
A majority of the following posts (with regards to Electron) are negative...
> ust promise yourself you'll eventually quit Electron. Electron is nothing more than a deal you make with the devil,
> Don’t just tinker... make it a grand North Star goal to lose Electron, and make performance your moat.
> It being Electron especially explains why it's so much more resource intensive than the other solutions.
> I hope you'll reconsider as your team grows.
> For me personally, memory usage has been a big concern with the growing number of Electron apps
> Indeed - a key competitor, Tuple, does not use Electron, and as a result I won’t even be taking a second look at Pop.
It's interesting that people on HN seem to be in such an obvious echo chamber but also see themselves as outsiders.
- greesil 5y agoThese two things are not mutually exclusive.
- compiler-guy 5y agoThere are thousands and thousands of people on HackerNews and only a tiny fraction of people comment on any given post. Further, the group that does comment on a particular post isn’t a random sample. Under such conditions, expecting a consistent, well thought out, position from post to post is unrealistic. And not really even all that surprising.
- staticassertion 5y agoI don't get your point. To reiterate, I'm challenging the idea that on HN you're likely to find stronger support for electron vs against.
- infogulch 5y agoGP is challenging the idea that "HN" is a single cohort with a consistent monolithic viewpoint on anything.
- staticassertion 5y agoI see. I explicitly specified that I was referring to comments I see.
- Uehreka 5y agoI think it’s fair to say that when people say something like “HN says” or “HN thinks”, they are asserting that a large majority of the comments take a particular side of an issue. Sure, there are many readers who don’t comment, but if they think very differently from the commenters, then they should speak up, because otherwise they don’t really count as part of the conversation.