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by esperent 1208 days ago
> I don't think you realize how slow those are, how slow they make your entire machine (eating the RAM for no good reason)

You're on a forum full of software developers, I think you can give us credit for knowing exactly how much resources the apps we use take up.

Personally, I frequently run VSCode, Slack, Zoom, Chrome, and occasionally Loom at the same time on a machine with 8gb ram and it's fine. Until one of these new platforms like Tauri or Socket.sh catches up, the trade off for developers being able to develop once and run on multiple platforms is entirely understandable and clearly acceptable to most people.

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Fully agree on all points, I've never had a performance issue with Electron.

I have had Slack fill my home directory with logs once , long time ago. But that wasn't an electron problem.