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On the other hand, the developer convenience offered by Electron et al. comes by sacrificing runtime efficiency. It's astonishingly wasteful of resources, and that waste gets multiplied by every computer that runs the program, and every time it is run. The long-term costs saved by the developer are thereby amplified and pushed onto the users, in the form of shorter hardware upgrade cycles (and potentially increased electricity usage).

Just as a book will be read many more times than it is written, the burdens associated with a program's architecture will be borne many more times (collectively) by its users than by its developer. This is why I avoid web-based tech when building applications.

Relatedly, I'm glad to see that sustainable computing has begun showing up in global discourse.