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minus-squareweststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down2·6 months agoPeople being triggered by the sheer existence of Electron – it just HAS to be “shitty”, even if it works perfectly fine.
minus-squareEngineerGaming@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoI can appreciate the functionality, but cannot really call an application “good” if it eats up more than half a gigabyte of RAM while being something as simple as a messenger.
minus-squareBalder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoAlso there are better solutions if you want to have your UI in HTML nowadays. You don’t need to embed a whole web browser in each app.
minus-squareEngineerGaming@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoWhich ones, for example?
minus-squareBalder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoSomething like tauri does, by using the OS web engine, so the apps can be a few KB (depending on the code of course).
People being triggered by the sheer existence of Electron – it just HAS to be “shitty”, even if it works perfectly fine.
I can appreciate the functionality, but cannot really call an application “good” if it eats up more than half a gigabyte of RAM while being something as simple as a messenger.
Also there are better solutions if you want to have your UI in HTML nowadays. You don’t need to embed a whole web browser in each app.
Which ones, for example?
Something like tauri does, by using the OS web engine, so the apps can be a few KB (depending on the code of course).