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by Ygg2 2231 days ago
Electron is nice for a quick and dirty app. Sadly, people think it's ok to use it for making apps that people are going to use.

What I mean by this - I can recognize a non-Elector vs Electron app by the amount of RAM it consumes. Is your simple color picker/text editor/REST caller/mouse config/ToDo app taking 1GB+ of RAM? It's an Electron app.

For the record, I doubt FF based app would face much better.

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And the CPU usage spike as you type into a simple textbox. Without even looking at RAM usage. Text input lag and UI slowness gives it away at the first interaction.

At this point, I could almost tolerate the wasted RAM and CPU if interaction latency wasn't that bad.

Well you gotta shuffle those GBs.