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Web apps already dominate the desktop (aka Electron) and I don't see where they are better/equal than a native app (except maybe vscode that is closer than many

Web apps already dominate the desktop (aka Electron) and I don't see where they are better/equal than a native app (except maybe vscode that is closer than many others). If you can point me why Slack, Teams, WhatsApp desktop, Telegram, etc need too much ram to render a simple list + chat and call that efficient, then I would believe you about web apps being good.

dmitriid 5y ago
By the way, Slack eats up to 17% CPU to display a single animated reaction :) https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1486364312910368769 https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1486364312910368769 TweetDeck spikes to 22% CPU just to display a tooltip: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1486629036520521734 https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1486629036520521734 Truly an amazing technology.
- gjvc 5y ago
  JetBrains IDEs are just as bad, if not worse, because they force the user to cope with slow interactions, unless you are on a Mac, apparently.
  - dmitriid 5y ago
    Did you just compare a full-blown IDE to a single window with nothing but a list of text and images? Edit: and yes, Slack consumes 17% of CPU power to display animated reactions on an M1 processor.
    - gjvc 5y ago
      The difference is that people enjoy using Slack out of the box. JetBrains' products are intolerably laggy out of the box on unless one is using top-end hardware.