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Rust and Electron haters can do all the hating within this one post here.

by Simplicitas 5y ago

sanjayio 5y ago
What a great idea. I don’t understand the hate for either at all. They’re tools for a job.
SavantIdiot 5y ago
Drake turning away: ElectronJS 0.06GB app Drake approving: Any modern game requiring 100GB of content
- dylan604 5y ago
  The meme is bad, but seeing it as text is even worse.
  - chana_masala 5y ago
    I like it a lot this way actually, haha.
- mysterydip 5y ago
  I'd love to see some electron apps that use 60MB of RAM. Can you share some examples?
  - steveklabnik 5y ago
    Right now, the various Electron apps I have running: 1Password, 155mb Discord, 441mb Element: 38.7mb Signal: 91mb Slack: 46.2mb A few higher but a couple that are lower...
    - microtonal 5y ago
      How are you measuring this? Slack on my Mac is 325 MiB on disk (probably because it is a universal binary). A freshly-started Slack uses 461MiB RAM for all it's processes (usually getting worse when it has been running for a while).
      - xanaxagoras 5y ago
        Same, 473.4mb right now for 4 processes. Also slack is the only passably "good" electron app I've ever used.
        throw10920 5y ago
        Have you tried Obisdian(.md)? It seems relatively speedy and low-RAM for an Electron app ("only" ~150 MB without plugins).
        xanaxagoras 5y ago
        I haven't, I've actually been curious about this app though. I wasn't sure how easy it would be to use it while retaining all ownership of my data. I'm not interested in third parties hanging onto that, nor in software subscriptions (their "Sync" offering). I'd be happy to pay for the Catalyst tier if it's something I end up using, I'll check it out and see how much effort it is to integrate with Nextcloud. I use Joplin now, it's OK, hard to complain for the price but not my favorite.
        mtrpcic 5y ago
        You retain total ownership of your data with Obsidian. It's basically a tool to view a directory of markdown files and their connections between one another. I just track mine via git and push it to my remote whenever I want to back things up.
        strokirk 5y ago
        Obsidian is pretty sluggish on my computer, especially when scrolling even short documents. But that's probably possible to improve in the future and no fault of Electron. As a comparison, VS Code is super snappy even on very large documents.
        throw10920 5y ago
        Huh, that's super interesting. Well, VSCode, for me, at least, uses way more memory than Obsidian. I believe you that it's faster, I'm just very confused (and curious) as to why...
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
  Modern games have a shit-ton of assets in high quality. That takes up significant space no matter how you deal with it. Electron generally isn't doing anything more interesting than what we did on Win98 with 8MB of ram for the entire system.
- chana_masala 5y ago
  As a meta reply - it's quite funny to see this meme in textual form.

Rust and Electron haters can do all the hating within this one post here.

sanjayio 5y ago

What a great idea. I don’t understand the hate for either at all. They’re tools for a job.

SavantIdiot 5y ago

Drake turning away: ElectronJS 0.06GB app Drake approving: Any modern game requiring 100GB of content

dylan604 5y ago
The meme is bad, but seeing it as text is even worse.
- chana_masala 5y ago
  I like it a lot this way actually, haha.
mysterydip 5y ago
I'd love to see some electron apps that use 60MB of RAM. Can you share some examples?
- steveklabnik 5y ago
  Right now, the various Electron apps I have running: 1Password, 155mb Discord, 441mb Element: 38.7mb Signal: 91mb Slack: 46.2mb A few higher but a couple that are lower...
  - microtonal 5y ago
    How are you measuring this? Slack on my Mac is 325 MiB on disk (probably because it is a universal binary). A freshly-started Slack uses 461MiB RAM for all it's processes (usually getting worse when it has been running for a while).
    - xanaxagoras 5y ago
      Same, 473.4mb right now for 4 processes. Also slack is the only passably "good" electron app I've ever used.
      - throw10920 5y ago
        Have you tried Obisdian(.md)? It seems relatively speedy and low-RAM for an Electron app ("only" ~150 MB without plugins).
        xanaxagoras 5y ago
        I haven't, I've actually been curious about this app though. I wasn't sure how easy it would be to use it while retaining all ownership of my data. I'm not interested in third parties hanging onto that, nor in software subscriptions (their "Sync" offering). I'd be happy to pay for the Catalyst tier if it's something I end up using, I'll check it out and see how much effort it is to integrate with Nextcloud. I use Joplin now, it's OK, hard to complain for the price but not my favorite.
        mtrpcic 5y ago
        You retain total ownership of your data with Obsidian. It's basically a tool to view a directory of markdown files and their connections between one another. I just track mine via git and push it to my remote whenever I want to back things up.
        strokirk 5y ago
        Obsidian is pretty sluggish on my computer, especially when scrolling even short documents. But that's probably possible to improve in the future and no fault of Electron. As a comparison, VS Code is super snappy even on very large documents.
        throw10920 5y ago
        Huh, that's super interesting. Well, VSCode, for me, at least, uses way more memory than Obsidian. I believe you that it's faster, I'm just very confused (and curious) as to why...
AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Modern games have a shit-ton of assets in high quality. That takes up significant space no matter how you deal with it. Electron generally isn't doing anything more interesting than what we did on Win98 with 8MB of ram for the entire system.
chana_masala 5y ago
As a meta reply - it's quite funny to see this meme in textual form.