[relaxatorium]

I've been using it recently and as a user it feels like a negative synthesis as much as a positive one.

Its memory footprint bloats with tabs much like a web-browser does and now my machine just lives in swap in a way that it doesn't with more traditional text editors.

[ashark]

This web-on-the-desktop thing is this generation's Java desktop applications/applets. Same back-and-forth.

Proponents: Almost as fast as native! Look at this V8 benchmark! Cross-platform for free! Why would you use anything else?

Skeptics: Yeah, but... insanely bad memory use, large package size, painful battery drain, and whatever your benchmarks say, noticeably worse real-world performance.

Proponents: But... cross platform for free! V8 benchmarks!