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by wonthegame 2757 days ago
I think it goes further than just eroding expected behaviour. There is a noticeable performance impact when using these Electron based apps. Idling in the background they'll happily drain your battery. Since consumers are using mobile devices more now, battery life is an important consideration. Scroll through text document on any electron app and check the processor usage. It's really surprising that you can get up to 60+% cpu usage.