That's a good question but what's the point of all this if no one can use the app if they don't have a minimum of 8gb ram? My wife couldn't run Spotify, slack at the same time cause her machine started swapping.
The developer experience is vastly superior in electron and it's reach is massive. There's no denying. But the underlying problems are pretty serious and the people who complain are not just hating for random reasons.
I hope you get how insane it is when your cpu fan starts spinning because of an app that plays music in the background!
So far the pro electron arguments are concerned only about developer experience who generally have beefier specs in their machines.
The lowest common denominator in end user machines are very different and I request you please keep that in mind!
P.S: I'm a web developer and I fully understand how much valuable electron is for me.
It's completely relevant. People run more than one application on their desktop computers.
Regardless of what many people say, RAM usage still matters. If every app takes a giant chunk of RAM just to get started ( which many do ) eventually that's going to bite you.
Yes, we do have a ton more resources to work with than we used to, but I'm afraid far too many developers have just stopped caring about it at all -- and that's a very bad thing.
> It's completely relevant. People run more than one application on their desktop computers.
That's great, so that must mean you'll be happy to hear that right now I have two instances of vscodium open, each one running half a dozen plugins, and their total memory footprint is less than 300MB.
Do you have anything relevant to say regarding how much resources are used? Or are we supposed to keep debating if being able to run 40x instances of a text editor is not enough room to work with, or if whether having only 7.8GB of RAM free to run other programs is too restrictive?
A UI that can change layout to accommodate your window size and in which UI elements don't confusingly jump around when you click something but transition is bad? I'd like to read about your idea of a good UI.
The developer experience is vastly superior in electron and it's reach is massive. There's no denying. But the underlying problems are pretty serious and the people who complain are not just hating for random reasons.
I hope you get how insane it is when your cpu fan starts spinning because of an app that plays music in the background!
So far the pro electron arguments are concerned only about developer experience who generally have beefier specs in their machines.
The lowest common denominator in end user machines are very different and I request you please keep that in mind!
P.S: I'm a web developer and I fully understand how much valuable electron is for me.