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by egorfine 523 days ago
As much as I hate Electron apps, I have to admit that there are incredibly, unbelievably well done apps created with it.

VS Code and 1Password 8 do come to mind. Blazingly fast. Low memory footprint. Incredibly reliable.

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1Pass is a perfect example for my argument – v7 was amazing, and native. v8 has weird bugs, like refusing to open despite saying it’s working fine. As to memory, while I forget the consumption of v7, v8 looks to consume somewhere around 130 MB for the app, plus that again for a renderer helper or two, and then the browser extensions.

100+ MB for what is essentially an encrypted local DB with cloud sync and a GUI seems absurd.

Only if you haven’t used the alternatives.