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I'm sure there's worse hiding beneath the covers of some apps you use on a regular basis; e.g. Teams, Office, most AA/AAA games, etc. While Electron is far from
by nateb2022 4y ago
I'm sure there's worse hiding beneath the covers of some apps you use on a regular basis; e.g. Teams, Office, most AA/AAA games, etc. While Electron is far from optimal, just because a great app is built on top of it doesn't make that app any less great.
As an example, although I do have a prejudice against Electron based apps myself, that doesn't prevent me from using VSCode, which itself is based on Electron. VSCode is pretty great, and I'm not going to not use it simply because it uses Electron.
- cosmotic 4y agoUsing electron generally means 10x cpu, energy, and memory usage. I'd say that is less great all on its own.
- twosdai 4y agoHey 10x of zero is still zero. :p
- MrOwnPut 4y agoYeah but it all adds up. Go look at the top energy, memory, cpu consuming apps in Activity Monitor. The top offenders are all electron based. Okay so we need the chat apps and the coding apps to be electron, those are always running. Okay now VPN apps need electron for some reason, okay now this scripting app needs it, okay those have to run all the time. Shit where'd my battery life and memory go? Oh the 6 electron apps running nonstop.
- franga2000 4y agoDefinitely, but those are large and complex applications. This is a fancy dropdown.