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by norman784 1571 days ago
Web apps already dominate the desktop (aka Electron) and I don't see where they are better/equal than a native app (except maybe vscode that is closer than many others).

If you can point me why Slack, Teams, WhatsApp desktop, Telegram, etc need too much ram to render a simple list + chat and call that efficient, then I would believe you about web apps being good.
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dmitriid 1571 days ago
By the way, Slack eats up to 17% CPU to display a single animated reaction :) https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1486364312910368769

TweetDeck spikes to 22% CPU just to display a tooltip: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1486629036520521734

Truly an amazing technology.

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gjvc 1571 days ago
JetBrains IDEs are just as bad, if not worse, because they force the user to cope with slow interactions, unless you are on a Mac, apparently.
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dmitriid 1571 days ago
Did you just compare a full-blown IDE to a single window with nothing but a list of text and images?

Edit: and yes, Slack consumes 17% of CPU power to display animated reactions on an M1 processor.

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gjvc 1569 days ago
The difference is that people enjoy using Slack out of the box. JetBrains' products are intolerably laggy out of the box on unless one is using top-end hardware.
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