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?

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    3 years ago

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

    • DessalinesA
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      3 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.”