• Kamek@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      You’re right, it’s not. Now you need 16Gb because no one can be bothered writing their UI without this garbage anymore.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly for me electron apps can also get pretty janky.

      Plus Electron takes WAY more than 2mb of RAM.

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        1 year ago

        And thus cripples battery life.

        I only use things like Discord in Safari and Firefox to not have to use the Electron app.

        I really don’t get how everything has to use web UI. SwiftUI is really easy to learn and you can run this on any Apple platform. Flutter is a mess but you can run it on Android. GTK looks just gorgeous and Qt can run on everything but ChromeOS (like 99% of things). Is it really too much to ask for 3 more developers in a company that build native?

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          1 year ago

          Small addition: I unsubscribed like many others from 1Password because with version 8 even they switched from native to Electron. This is just crazy.

          I mean guys, frickin think about people who can’t afford recent hardware! Do we really want Electron and thus Chromium/Google to force us to buy 1000€+ hardware to be able to do things?

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      I don’t like having to choose between Discord or Logseq and things that actually need the RAM…