What is slack doing? The process was in the background when this happened. I wasn't even interacting with it - I was in a meeting. I only noticed because my laptop fans were whurring when I got back. Restarting slack seemed to fix it for now. But that's not abnormal
  • adamsky
    5•4 years ago

    It’s called electron 'cause it uses 10 times more electricity than your regular gui library.

  • Maya
    4•4 years ago

    This fundamental comparison seems right. But it’s curious that it neglects the mass of creativity and experimentation that came out of Flash–it wasn’t all the stuff that zombo.com mocked. (Also, these performance comparisons never seem useful to me because I can’t do my job without a browser open–so the perf comparison then fairly ought to be the marginal cost of Yet Another Tab.)

    • DessalinesA
      3•4 years ago

      I kinda miss flash games, seems like a lot of the creativity that went into them isn’t there with newer js games (but maybe I’m just not looking now).

      • Maya
        4•4 years ago

        flash was super accessible for artists to get into. I wonder if the JS options of today meet that bar. I know there’s a lot of weird cool stuff going on today with visual novels and whatnot, but…

  • DessalinesA
    3•4 years ago

    Funny that this was written in 2016, and its even worse today. Even every note-taking app is now an electron app that runs an entire browser in there.