[Gentil]

I usually agree with this sentiment of shipping vs not shipping. But Electron is just really bloated. You cannot install 10 apps and regularly use it. Most systems will just hang or crawl. Systems with 8GB should not be hanging because you are using 10 apps.

I have 16GB RAM and even then I feel the hog with Discord, Slack, VS Code, A note app taking up too much memory. Then there is unnecessary security risk of bringing all the browser issues along with it.

People shouldn't have to buy an expensive Mac books to use normal apps. That should be for MLOPS or other processing heavy tasks.

Also, an Electron app uses anywhere around 150+MB to 400ishMB ram on normal cases. For one app.An app like QOwnNotes uses only a small portion of it. 50MB-100MB max. So when you you add just 10 electron apps, the number just blows up.

I feel like whatever progress with performance we are making with processor is just cancelled out with things like Electron. That is just sad.

So no. I don't think this is a good example of loud minority scenario.

[mattgreenrocks]

It is sad.

But I'd rather people ship something and refine the Electron version than never ship anything at all. Mostly because I believe more in indie devs than I do in the purity of software.

[Gentil]

I would at least recommend trying tauri.studio out instead of Electron. :)

[mwcampbell]

As an indie dev who has been working on an Electron application, thanks. Reading comments on message boards like this one, it's easy to pick up the attitude that it would be better to have less software than more crap. And I think that internalizing that attitude hurt my productivity on this current Electron-based project. But once I was able to push through that and get the app out to actual users, I see growing enthusiasm among the target user base, and as far as I know, zero complaints from actual or even potential users about the fact that the app uses Electron. Sure, maybe those complaints will come once the product gets past the early adopter phase, but the reception so far has been encouraging.

[truffdog]

The secret is to have your employer buy you a brand new top spec MacBook Pro every two years, then it's fast enough and doesn't bother you. That's also what all the Electron devs are doing.