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by cjk2 805 days ago
Electron serves the developer not the user.

It also looks shit on every platform then.

And eats all your RAM
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dotinvoke 805 days ago
The complaint that Chrome eats all your RAM is because it starts a new process for each tab, with all the overhead that entails. You’re not using multiple tabs in an Electron app.
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cjk2 805 days ago
No instead I run 50 standalone browsers with one tab each on my machine ...
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ranger_danger 805 days ago
The overheard prevents any one tab from taking out the entire browser though.
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dotinvoke 805 days ago
Chrome has good reason to use multiple processes, but criticism of Chrome doesn’t necessarily apply to Electron apps.
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saagarjha 805 days ago
That’s not the complaint lol
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