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I hate when people bring up VS Code in defense of electron. It is basically the one application built in electron that isn't obviously significantly worse beca
by spiderice 5y ago
I hate when people bring up VS Code in defense of electron. It is basically the one application built in electron that isn't obviously significantly worse because of it. And it's because it is backed by a trillion dollar company that can afford to invest the time to fix the electron limitations for their project. No other app built in electron is even remotely close to VS Code, which is still noticeably bad in performance when compared to native editors.
- howinteresting 5y ago1password 8 is also very good, being built in Electron with a Rust backend.
- mandrizzle 5y agoIs it better than the native 1password7?
- howinteresting 5y agoPersonally, yes, I think so.
- surfmike 5y agoSlack, Spotify, and Obsidian.md are other apps where I couldn’t really care that it’s using electron.
- josefrichter 5y agoSlack and Spotify are not great. You can tell they're electron. I don't know Obsidian.
- pacomerh 5y agoIt's still used by millions, so I would say it's a success
- pjmlp 5y agoI use Electron based apps, because they are part of the job, refusing them means looking for another job, which in the current world status is kind of not really what I want to do. The path to sucess is a very tortuous one full of victims.
- pjmlp 5y agoAdditionally they offload tons of stuff to native code out of process.