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by jedikv 3376 days ago
>I'm willing to take a slight performance hit if that allows me to use the same app on any platform, even if it's size becomes 200 megabytes bigger.

From personal exeprience, it's beyond slight perf hit. Often js apps are the ones hogging most of the resources on my system.

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I don't think it's possible to emphasise this enough.

Slack and Spotify are consistently the worst-performing applications I use frequently, easily by an order of magnitude. Slack manages to absolutely tear through CPU cycles and battery life, while simultaneously being sluggish and shitty to use. Have you ever tried scrolling back in a channel? It's horrifying.

It's got bad enough that I've started to hack together native Mac clients for both in my spare time.