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Also electron require multiple node backend services which each eat memory like crazy (based on electron app I use).

Have one, real Multithreaded +, more efficient backend, will reduce memory and offer better performance.

Wails is also an alternative that does just that. Shared Web UI engine + Go compiled backend.

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> Also electron require multiple node backend services which each eat memory like crazy (based on electron app I use).

AFAIK Electron requires 1 Node instance (you can disable it for renderer processes and you can have 0 WebWorkers or only WebWorkers with Node.js disabled) which consumes like ~50MB or something like that, which probably accounts for stuff other than Node.js too, if the app you are using require multiple Node processes that use huge amounts of memory they are just badly written.

> Have one, real Multithreaded +, more efficient backend, will reduce memory and offer better performance.

You can't just share Node.js across multiple apps, Tauri just doesn't bundle it at all, which is a whole different story with mostly downsides from my point of view.

[francisl]

> just badly written.

Ins't the easy answer. Each time a dev want to ignore valid comments.

I have the following electron app running: Spotify, Figma, VS Code, Discord, Slack. They all use more than 1 helper. Consuming between 600mb to 3.5gb.

Slack is much better than it was. But I wish they switch to something like Tauri or Wails in the future.

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Of those apps I can only say that VS Code is well written and that Spotify is junk.

Is 600mb too much for VS Code? I guess it depends on what you are doing with it and which extensions you have installed etc., if you are running a pretty bare-bones installation and seeing 1GB+ memory usages in VS Code please open an issue in their issue tracker and tag me (same username as in HN).

> Slack is much better than it was.

And that didn't happen by switching to the website approach, I think you'll be disappointed if any of these apps end up switching to Tauri or Wails without significantly improving their code too. Which is why I'd predict no major player will jump ship.

[francisl]

for my work, vscode take between 1.5 to 2.5gb. Nothing has change since start using it 4 years ago, and my experience is consistent with my coworkers. I keep using it because it 'feels' the best overall. No magical issue will fix that, node is memory hungry as is java.

Calling an app junk to justify is argument is unconvincing. Its still a widely used app that works as good as the competition. In the case of slack, their optimisation endeavour seems to cost them quite a lot. But sure I don't have the number. If they would have start the project in Tauri or Wails at the beginning, would that saved them the refactoring? I don't now. But we will need more team using that kind of alternative to gain the knowledge and real benefit.

At this point I rewriting a toy project from electron to wails and its great. But well, it's only a toy project.

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> for my work, vscode take between 1.5 to 2.5gb.

That sounds like a lot, you are probably running some heavy extensions or too many of them I guess, could you post a screenshot of the "process explorer" window for your instance of vscode?

> Calling an app junk to justify is argument is unconvincing.

I couldn't care less about what you think about Electron, that's just what I think.