[Sytten]

On the contrary it is a big big issue if you have a complex web app like we do. It was a PITA to deal with user bugs in a specific macos version with a 8y out of date webview.

And the performances of webkitgtk are horrible on Linux.

[presentation]

That’s a big issue if you can’t set a minimum required version for some reason, same for web apps in general - I rarely find much problems with platform behavior but that’s probably because we just reject out of date browsers.

[zdragnar]

That's one of the main selling points of Electron: it ships a single browser instead of using the system webview.

The main drawback, of course, is that it ships a browser with every app.

[Sammi]

Yeah for a small tertiary apps then Electron is a huge performance burden to put on your users. They might just choose it's not worth it and not use your app.

On the contrary if it's a large app that the user spends lots of time in, then the performance overhead might well be worth it for the user.

Imagine in the first case that it requires a base load of 10 units of energy to run and gives 2 units of output, while in the second it still costs 10 units of base load energy, but now it gives 100 units of output. The base load becomes relatively irrelevant.