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    I HATE electron (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
    submitted 1 year ago by Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] ultrasquid@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Its not 1990 anymore, you have more than 2 megabytes of ram.

    [–] Kamek_pf@programming.dev 40 points 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.

    [–] dukk@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Honestly for me electron apps can also get pretty janky.

    Plus Electron takes WAY more than 2mb of RAM.

    [–] Semmelstulle@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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?

    [–] Semmelstulle@feddit.de 3 points 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?

    [–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    Jank is one reason I'm not a fan of electron. It's very common to gain extra scrollbars, for the contents to shift around weirdly. Things break in ways that native apps never do, due to the sheer complexity of web rendering these days. Customizability is nearly always lacking, especially when it comes to cooperating with the host OS's preferences...

    [–] hare_ware@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

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