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by AlchemistCamp 2408 days ago
> No sane person would pick anything but Electron for a desktop app today, unless you are in a particularly high performance domain (CAD/Graphics/Video/...)

People who don't hate their users or who don't hate the environment might.

Electron apps use lots of CPU, lots of RAM and lots of energy. I get that they're easy for web devs to make and I've made them before but I'd fight tooth and nail against launching one at scale (like Slack did, for example).
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notthatharda 2408 days ago
Well, if you make the energy argument, theres a lot more to cut then.

How about high resolution displays? And bit depths? We can perfectly work on a 1024x768x256 colors screen. Imagine how much CPU/GPU cycles that would save.

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