[spiderice]

I hate when people bring up VS Code in defense of electron. It is basically the one application built in electron that isn't obviously significantly worse because of it. And it's because it is backed by a trillion dollar company that can afford to invest the time to fix the electron limitations for their project. No other app built in electron is even remotely close to VS Code, which is still noticeably bad in performance when compared to native editors.

[surfmike]

Slack, Spotify, and Obsidian.md are other apps where I couldn’t really care that it’s using electron.

[josefrichter]

Slack and Spotify are not great. You can tell they're electron. I don't know Obsidian.

[pacomerh]

It's still used by millions, so I would say it's a success

[pjmlp]

I use Electron based apps, because they are part of the job, refusing them means looking for another job, which in the current world status is kind of not really what I want to do.

The path to sucess is a very tortuous one full of victims.

[howinteresting]

1password 8 is also very good, being built in Electron with a Rust backend.

[mandrizzle]

Is it better than the native 1password7?

[howinteresting]

Personally, yes, I think so.

[pjmlp]

Additionally they offload tons of stuff to native code out of process.