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> Compute is really cheap these days, so I wonder how much it's worth it to squeeze every drop of performance out now. And that's why every single Electron app
by foepys 4y ago
> Compute is really cheap these days, so I wonder how much it's worth it to squeeze every drop of performance out now.
And that's why every single Electron app is slower on a modern 4.7 GHz 8 core CPU than a (although not as pretty) native app on a single core CPU in 1999. Spotify is slow as molasses and has less features than foobar2000, MS Teams is slower than any messenger I used in 2005, and all those Postman-like apps are just a horror to use compared to a simple bash script with wget.
Case in point: I cannot use MS Teams on my state of the art computer when I'm compiling. It's just so slow to type and switch chats.
- vosper 4y ago> and all those Postman-like apps are just a horror to use compared to a simple bash script with wget. Personally I like having collections of requests, automatic formatting of responses, dedicated fields to enter headers into, automatic parsing of cURL / HAR etc, the ability to generate code in various languages... There's a lot more to most of these Postman-like apps than just making requests! Though I have seen Insomnia just completely choke up on large responses (10s of MBs) that Sublime renders in a flash - so you're not completely wrong, just throwing the baby out with the bathwater :)