[dvfjsdhgfv]

People on HN will rather gently point out that Electron, being convenient to you, is at the same time a horrible resource hog and exactly the opposite of what an elegantly-written, efficient and optimized application would be. Especially for some of us who actually create native apps using Electron might just be laziness - or inability to really care about the user.

[FullMtlAlcoholc]

> Electron might just be laziness - or inability to really care about the user.

Or it might be that it is just good enough for the target user. My 2013 Macbook has enough power to run all the Electron apps I need without slowing down...well it did once I removed Atom and learned to love Visual Studio Code.

I think that Atom's performance woes and resource hogging tends to be a stand-in for all atom apps.

[roryisok]

Hey look, just what I was talking about. I mentioned electron and now I've been called lazy and uncaring

[dvfjsdhgfv]

I was very careful to use the word "might", as there really are cases where Electron is the optimal choice. Usually though, it is not.