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
    link
    72 years ago

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

    • DessalinesA
      link
      222 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.

      • Sr Estegosaurio
        link
        72 years ago

        “But nowdays is cheaper” it’s a lazy excuse to not do any proper optimization.

        • DessalinesA
          link
          72 years ago

          That article that @IngrownMink4@lemmy.ml linked is so good. At the bottom of it, they state: “All you web devs should learn C or Rust. Your program runs on a computer. Learn how to code for one.”