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>Customers simply don't care. I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years. I see comp

by coldtea 9mo ago

>Customers simply don't care. I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years. I see complains about RAM and slugginess against Slack and countless others Electron apps every fucking day, same as with Adobe forcing web rendered UI parts in Photoshop, and other such cases. Forums are full of them, colleagues always complain about it.

sbarre 9mo ago
How are Adobe and Slack/Salesforce doing? Are they hurting for customers?
- lurking_swe 9mo ago
  the people that USE the software the most are not the people BUYING the software. it’s why all enterprise software has trash UX. do you think i as a software engineer like using Jira? Outlook? etc? Heck even the trendy stuff is broken. Anthropic took took 6 months to fix a flickering claude code. -_-
  - sbarre 9mo ago
    Yes that was my point.
    - coldtea 9mo ago
      Not relevant point though. I was answering to this "I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years", I wasn't arguing that such apps don't make money.
      - deleted 9mo ago
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- frumplestlatz 9mo ago
  McDonald’s isn’t hurting for customers either. Doesn’t mean their food is anything a chef ought to aspire to.
  - afiori 9mo ago
    Neither it means that McDonald's should aspire to be a chef
    - frumplestlatz 9mo ago
      Sure, aspiring to mediocrity at a cost to others is a choice.
  - eviks 9mo ago
    McDonald's is renown for speed of service, a bit ironic to compare that to slow apps
    - Citizen_Lame 9mo ago
      Maybe 40 years ago.
  - theGeatZhopa 9mo ago
    I'm loving it
Aeolun 9mo ago
Of course they complain about them, but those are the users, not the purchasers.