[dreamcompiler]

> Why all the hate?

Because it's simply offensive to me as a computer scientist and software engineer to use most of the resources of a 3GHz processor and 12GB of RAM doing something that really can be easily done with a processor 1000x slower with 1000x less RAM. I'm willing to accept a certain amount of overhead for modern user interfaces and cross-platform capability, but three orders of magnitude wastage is ridiculous. It literally offends me.

[ac29]

Perhaps you're being hyperbolic, but can you give an example of an application that runs more or less the same functionality and performance on a 30 MHz processor with 12MB RAM (a high end computer from the early 1990s) as a 3GHz processor with 12GB of RAM (a high end computer from 2017)?

[dreamcompiler]

I'm guessing you're not very old. Interleaf on an original MC68000 Sun workstation. The Symbolics Genera IDE. Pretty much every app on an Amiga or Mac II circa 1990. Most of these apps were more responsive and more capable than Electron with single cores and 1/1000 the resources. Making clickable animated widgets on a windowed screen that tightly integrate with the OS doesn't (or shouldn't) take much software. But we seem to have forgotten that.