I often see people talking about the fact that they like a certain open-source application, but ‘it’s a shame it’s on Electron’; what does this mean? Is it a privacy thing or a resource thing?

  • Sr Estegosaurio
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    3 years ago

    Well, electron just sucks. Is just trash. Inmense resource consumption bc chromium.

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      3 years ago

      I always like to think of the fact that space agencies went to the moon on like 2KB of ram, but in 2022 we need 4 GB of ram to run a chat window.