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Will people stop complaining about Electron once their machine has 8 or more GB of ram?
by mekster 5y ago
Will people stop complaining about Electron once their machine has 8 or more GB of ram?
- ColonelPhantom 5y agoMy machine has 8 GB of RAM and I complain about Electron, because it's still sluggish, looks out of place and with how prevalent it is, running 3 instances is not rare (eg Slack+Discord+VSCode), which together eat up easily multiple gigabytes of RAM, and then there's also still my regular web browser.
- ho_schi 5y agoActually not. The problem is, good stuff need enduring hard work. There is no justification of wasting resources, draining the battery and providing bad integration into the environment. It is like Flash: https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/ https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/ Why companies use Electron? It saves them money! And the users pay for CPU, RAM and suffer from bad usability. But that doesn't show up on your bill from Microsoft, Zoom, Spotify or Slack. And when your stuck with one software migration to better is hard. Steve Jobs killed Flash for just on reason, battery drain ^^