[mananvaghasiya]

This is good and all but anyone else see a problem with electron apps for everything? all these apps built with electron really clogging my ram.

[oblio]

If Electron means that people actually make cross platform apps, I'm all for it. Slightly suboptimal apps are better than no apps or discontinued apps.

[mananvaghasiya]

Me too, but there should be some way to share resources between them

[oblio]

Shouldn't that be the OS's task? My kernel knowledge is rusty but I remember reading about concepts such as DLL/SO sharing, memory page sharing, etc.

[szastupov]

This works for libraries/frameworks installed in a common place, like /usr/lib or /Library/Frameworks.

But, all those apps ship their own copy of Electron, so there is no simple way for OS to share pages.

[oblio]

Well, then this seems more of a packaging problem than an actual tech problem.

In an ideal world that would be the next step if the app reaches a large audience. I'm not sure that from the upstream developer's point of view the investment of limited resources into per-OS packaging is a good idea at this stage...

[yAnonymous]

It only uses slightly more memory than Eye Of Gnome. If that's the price I have to pay for desktop apps with a better UI, I'll pay it.

[mananvaghasiya]

slight you say? eog 8.1MB vs lightgallery 60MB for same image file.

[yAnonymous]

Even when opening EoG without any image, it uses 25MB here. Are you using the values from the system monitor? Pretty sure those are not very accurate.

[mananvaghasiya]

yup 6.1MB confirmed with top, without image

[mrmondo]

Javascript is the new Flash Player

[onion2k]

JavaScript is becoming what Java set out to do, but in a way that works for users.

[mrmondo]

And not in a way for engineers that want to host applications, or people who care about single threaded web-frame apps chewing up their laptops battery and RAM.

[mananvaghasiya]

I wouldn't blame JavaScript.

[mrmondo]

Lots of people didn't blame Adobe either...

[tdkl]

It solves the problem of people not upgrading their PCs. /s

[mananvaghasiya]

for sure