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I pray not....everything seems to be an electron webapp. I hate it so much....its hard to convey how much. Perhaps its the fact I hate what the modern web has

I pray not....everything seems to be an electron webapp. I hate it so much....its hard to convey how much. Perhaps its the fact I hate what the modern web has mutated into....or I see stuff like discord as prime examples of why to avoid webapps.

chii 2y ago
if it wasn't an electron app, they would not have the ease with which they could integrate libraries such as that mermaid diagramming tool. Electron is fine tbh, even if it eats memory and harddisk space. Provided the app is written efficiently, and doesn't stutter or lag.
- d_tr 2y ago
  I use VS Code because it's a great editor... but it eats a few hundred MiB of RAM and it doesn't start instantly... On a machine with 32 GiB or RAM, 8 CPU cores and a fast NVMe drive. The main window is a glorified notepad. How will it fare on, say, an SBC? Electron might have certain advantages compared to alternatives, but this is more of a result of decades of a crappy attitude towards software development. We should not be content with something like this.
  - rchaud 2y ago
    Is there an alternative to Electron that allows a program to be compiled for multiple OSes without having to maintain separate codebases for each?
    - freedomben 2y ago
      Java has offered this for a very long time. (Swing, SWT, Java FX)
    - philglau 2y ago
      Qt
    - waldrews 2y ago
      Ironically, .Net has several.
    - wetpaws 2y ago
      [dead]
    - theturtletalks 2y ago
      Tauri seems to address the issues with Electron and works cross platform. It’s still early though and doesn’t have feature parity with Electron yet.
    - neonsunset 2y ago
      https://www.avaloniaui.net/ https://www.avaloniaui.net/ and http://platform.uno/ http://platform.uno/
  - jappgar 2y ago
    who cares? the difference between 50ms and 5ms is barely pereceptible. vscode isn't slow. it's fast. it could be faster, but making it faster would be, ironically, a waste of time.
- srid 2y ago
  There's also Tauri which https://dioxuslabs.com/ https://dioxuslabs.com/ uses.

chii 2y ago

if it wasn't an electron app, they would not have the ease with which they could integrate libraries such as that mermaid diagramming tool. Electron is fine tbh, even if it eats memory and harddisk space. Provided the app is written efficiently, and doesn't stutter or lag.

d_tr 2y ago
I use VS Code because it's a great editor... but it eats a few hundred MiB of RAM and it doesn't start instantly... On a machine with 32 GiB or RAM, 8 CPU cores and a fast NVMe drive. The main window is a glorified notepad. How will it fare on, say, an SBC? Electron might have certain advantages compared to alternatives, but this is more of a result of decades of a crappy attitude towards software development. We should not be content with something like this.
- rchaud 2y ago
  Is there an alternative to Electron that allows a program to be compiled for multiple OSes without having to maintain separate codebases for each?
  - freedomben 2y ago
    Java has offered this for a very long time. (Swing, SWT, Java FX)
  - philglau 2y ago
    Qt
  - waldrews 2y ago
    Ironically, .Net has several.
  - wetpaws 2y ago
    [dead]
  - theturtletalks 2y ago
    Tauri seems to address the issues with Electron and works cross platform. It’s still early though and doesn’t have feature parity with Electron yet.
  - neonsunset 2y ago
    https://www.avaloniaui.net/ https://www.avaloniaui.net/ and http://platform.uno/ http://platform.uno/
- jappgar 2y ago
  who cares? the difference between 50ms and 5ms is barely pereceptible. vscode isn't slow. it's fast. it could be faster, but making it faster would be, ironically, a waste of time.
srid 2y ago
There's also Tauri which https://dioxuslabs.com/ https://dioxuslabs.com/ uses.