[bartread]

> look like l33t h4xx0rs even though we're just pressing continue 15 times

I feel seen.

I also think there’s a certain element of reacting against absolutely everything becoming a bloated electron app.

I have no doubt - if it hasn’t already happened - that some apps will unironically embrace the most ridiculous option by shipping as electron apps that implement a TUI layer as their front-end.

[john01dav]

> I have no doubt - if it hasn’t already happened - that some apps will unironically embrace the most ridiculous option by shipping as electron apps that implement a TUI layer as their front-end.

Claude code is almost there

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/theres-a-react-app-running-...

[Suro]

Considering the insane memory consumption of claude code running in my terminal, electron was never really the problem, bad software was the culprit all along.

[fasterik]

The culprit is using web technologies where they don't belong, which Electron is also guilty of. Claude Code is 400k lines of JavaScript for a TUI where a sane implementation in C would be two orders of magnitude less code.

[onemoresoop]

Can’t say that electron does not encourage bad software, quite the opposite

[treyd]

It's an example of bad code that further encourages more bad code.

[jorvi]

Yup. VSCode is really fast and memory-frugal for an Electron application of that complexity.

Likewise, Gnome has proven that you can write entire UIs in Javascript and have them be quite performant.

Electron (well, Node is a big sub-culprit) and Javascript in general just make it really easy to create a slow, bloated application.

[Redster]

Always has been.

[WD-42]

Claude code is react and their desktop app is Electron. But “coding is largely a solved problem”.

[ornornor]

> shipping as electron apps that implement a TUI layer as their front-end

A significant number of these apps are nodejs apps so it’s not that much of a leap!

[bartread]

Yeah, I noticed some TUI libraries in npm when I was working on a Typescript project a couple of years back so I'm sure people are doing it.

[samgranieri]

I really wish that 1Password wasn’t an electron app. Or Spotify. (Maybe I should just use Spotify in the browser).

We need to advocate and evangelize for native apps, like RapidApi on macOS and also Tower.

[MarsIronPI]

Just wait till you hear about the wonders of React + Ink! Now you can have JS bloat in your terminal too!

Jokes aside, I don't understand how devs can bring themselves to ship such inefficient apps.

[girvo]

Except most of the TUIs I’m seeing are god awful with horrible input latency because they’ve reimplemented everything from scratch in python or whatever. Multiple hundreds of ms per keystroke: it sucks.