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by uncompressed 241 days ago
I love Fastmail, but I don't understand why they chose Electron for this. It's totally fair that they want to keep it web-based, but why ship a 318 MB memory hog? Why not something lighter like Tauri or a custom wrapper like Fastmate [1] did?

[1] https://github.com/joelekstrom/fastmate