> Electron apps are usually faster. Not my experience, and I'm not talking benchmarks. That said I barely use my phone and I'm thinking mainly about desktop ap

> Electron apps are usually faster. Not my experience, and I'm not talking benchmarks. That said I barely use my phone and I'm thinking mainly about desktop applications. Mac-native apps are universally faster and more responsive than Electron-based equivalents. Doing more work costs more resources than doing less work, and it's hard to beat JITing Javascript and manipulating and rendering HTML+CSS for wasteful computation, no matter how much you optimize it. That said, I've used phone apps that were essentially some webpage in webview that were highly responsive and pleasant to use, so it's certainly possible to have a good experience with webapps. Reducing the amount of Javascript and using simpler HTML+CSS would also probably go a long way to make these apps fasters and lighter. I remember using AJAX-based chat websites in the 2000s that ran perfectly fine on hardware far weaker than even a 5 year old phone, so how the heck does Slack have such poor performance? That's the real problem.