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This is such a lazy take. Electron is very easy to deliver a good quality app for everything but absolute power users. Yes it's horribly slow but it enables r
by __alexs 8mo ago
This is such a lazy take.
Electron is very easy to deliver a good quality app for everything but absolute power users.
Yes it's horribly slow but it enables rapid experimentation and it's easy to deliver the wide range of UI integrations you are likely to want in a chat-esq experience.
- dangus 8mo agoIt’s not even horribly slow. It works fine. It’s just a chat program. It’s the right trade off for the job. Doing more work for no reason is stupid even if you the have money of a small nation. The inevitable differences between platforms you get with all native everything isn’t a good user experience, either. Now you need to duplicate your documentation and support pages and have support staff available to address every platform. And what’s the payoff? Saving 80MB of RAM? Gaining milliseconds of latency that Joe Business will never notice as he’s hunt and pecking his way through the interface? I thought we were done with Electron hate articles. It’s so 2018 to complain about it. It’s like talking about millennials and their skinny jeans. Yawn.
- hyperman1 8mo agoI'm dealing with MS Teams, which is for me a chat and video app. It uses 2GB of RAM, which is more thand my local postgresql. It must sit there in the background wasting 2/16 of my laptop or people can't reach me. And if MS stopped randomly moving things around in the UI with no benefit whatsoever, their documentation could be usefull instead of telling me where I could find some setting 3 years ago.
- nottorp 8mo agoI think Teams is one of the few apps where we can’t just blame JavaScript induced incompetence. Someone needed actual malice to write that monster.