[rvz]

> are there any Electron.js app that you know, that really simple and shouldn't be using Electron, yet it is ?

I could do a lot with a very fast Git GUI client that is able to index at least 50K - 100K+ commits that are pulled from its repository and to be able to bisect and find a regression or to search for a specific commit in the history.

Unfortunately I have tried GitHub for Desktop, GitKraken and a VSCode extension "GitLens" which are horrendous for these tasks and essentially destroy the disk and memory space on my MacBook and as a bonus for every search it takes a couple of minutes to find the commit. I find them painful to use.

This is the reason why several devs working with repositories of that magnitude of commits use the terminal "git" command instead of these Electron ones. I use Fork [0] and GitAhead [2] as my Git clients on Mac and Linux respectively and I am very pleased that they both exist.

[0] https://fork.dev/

[1] https://gitahead.com/

[itake]

This to me just seems like Github Desktop and Gitlens are just poorly optimized for large repositories. If the git cli can handle large repositories, then so should the JS ones. There wouldn't be anything inherently bad about using electron for this.

[jafingi]

How about Sublime Merge? [0]

From the guys behind Sublime Text. Amazingly fast (and native).

[0] https://www.sublimemerge.com/