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I know it's easy to point at Electron specifically for examples of poor performance (and the author acknowledged it) but Spotify isn't a great example - it's th

I know it's easy to point at Electron specifically for examples of poor performance (and the author acknowledged it) but Spotify isn't a great example - it's the CEF flavour of web based frontend. Slack on the other hand... </nitpick>

lawgimenez 3y ago
Always reminds me of the YouTube interview of Todoist's CTO where he was asked by the JetBrains guys what is the architecture of the desktop, and CTO sheepishly said Electron and the JetBrains interviewers couldn't stop laughing.
- Tactician_mark 3y ago
  If anyone else is curious, they're talking about this video (happens at 5m42s): (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-o9MqN86eE#t=5m42s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-o9MqN86eE#t=5m42s)
nunez 3y ago
that's why I use Slack in the browser. It's very snappy and much less power-intensive.
- ta988 3y ago
  Does it support the video/screen sharing/huddles now?
  - manx 3y ago
    Linux: In Firefox no, in Chrome yes.
smcleod 3y ago
It really is all electron apps. The best I’ve used is VSCode (by far), but it’s still a resource hog.