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by mohsen1 481 days ago
Hacker News loves to hate Electron apps. In my experience ChatGPT on Mac (which I assume is fully native) is nearly impossible to use because I have a lot of large chats in my history but the website works much better and faster. ChatGPT website packed in Electron would've been much better. In fact, I am using a Chrome "PWA App" for ChatGPT now instead of the native app.
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wat10000 481 days ago
It's possible to make bad apps with anything. The difference is that, as far as I can tell, it's not possible to make good apps with Electron.
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RandomDistort 481 days ago
Someone more experienced that me could probably comment on this more, but theoretically is it possible for Electron production builds to become more efficient by having a much longer build process and stripping out all the unnecessary parts of Chromium?
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avtar 481 days ago
> In my experience ChatGPT on Mac (which I assume is fully native)

If we are to believe ChatGPT itself: "The ChatGPT macOS desktop app is built using Electron, which means it is primarily written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS"

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