[stabbles]

Your slow desktop app is an electron app

[giancarlostoro]

I was going to comment this. Typically these days a LOT of Desktop apps are Electron based:

VS Code, Slack, Signal, probably Keybase, Skype, MS Teams, Discord, RamBox, IRCCloud, Postman, Insomnia, Light Table, Hyper, and...

The list goes on.

But those are apps I have used and know are Electron. Thats at least 10 different instances of Chrome on a system running at any given time.

[frutiger]

It’s only ten instances of Chromium if you actually run all ten apps at any given time!

[TeMPOraL]

Which is like, the reason people invented multi-tasking operating systems, somewhere around 1960s.

Which is why current disregard for application performance really irks me. A computer is meant to run a lot of things at the same time. To some point, the utility of a computer scales with the number of things you can run simultaneously on it. Your Electron chat client that thinks it own 100% of CPU and RAM essentially puts a soft limit on that. It's less of a problem for power users, who know how to work around such problems, but it is a deal for regular people, who'd love to run a few things at a time but can't, because one or two apps grinds their cheap computer to a halt.

[XCSme]

No, my fast app (VSCode) is an electron app. Steam is slow, Photoshop is slow, SourceTree is slow.