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Comment by cjblomqvist

5 years ago

Up-voted for the same reason as the edit - I'd love to hear some fact based arguments why this comment should be down voted (why it's not possible to build performant applications with Electron)

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zwaps  5 years ago

Op did not provide a single example of an Electron app that competes with native performance. When pushed, they became indignant and said that they have personally worked on several snappy Electron apps, which, however are secret. Also, there are apparently no other examples of Electron apps readily at hand.

So we end up where we were, with VsCode as singular example, and in turn, with the distinctive suspicion that the inability of anyone to point to even one decently performing Electron app may just simply be because Electron is not very good.

The downvotes then probably arise from the fact that this argument has been replayed on HN hundreds of times.

  • slumpt_  5 years ago

    It’s nothing to do with Electron specifically and everything to do with the web as a platform and the requisite work to make performant apps.

slumpt_  5 years ago

It’s certainly an easy fall-person for their performance issues, but it seems just as reasonable to blame an ever-expanding feature set, including advertisements and all of the analytics to go with, along with a great deal of just… age? Spotify isn’t a young company anymore, and they’ve been maintaining their shop for long enough that the kitchen sink is undoubtedly strapped to their app by now.