Comment by mythz
5 years ago
Right, so still no evidence despite continuing to claim otherwise. Lets start off easy, what's the best example of a publicly downloadable Electron App that has the snappiest UX?
Having experienced the original Spotify App myself and having used many Electron Apps daily for years I'd posit that it's naive to claim the responsiveness and snappiness of the original Spotify App could ever be reimplemented in Electron. You're claiming it is, so lets hear about some examples we can actually use?
No evidence? I have no obligation to hold your hand.
I’ve worked in the industry for something on the order of like 15 years and have worked on extremely snappy web apps that I don’t personally care to name given my association with them.
I’m sorry you are disappointed by the web. I actually find VSCode to be an impressive achievement with Electron, though, fwiw - which is probably not much given your obvious predisposition.
If you make a ludicrous claim the onus is on you to provide some resemblance of evidence to back it up, the extent and reasons you go into avoid doing so is obvious and transparent.
VS Code is a good general multi-purpose text editor that I use daily, but it's nowhere near the responsiveness and performance of a native editors like Sublime Text.
Opening a 1MB text file with no other VS Code windows open takes up 350MB, Sublime is 48MB. If I want to view a file quickly I'll use a native text editor. But please keep baselessly spouting how Electron produces the snappiest apps and how it's everyone elses fault for assuming just because every Electron App they've ever used is slow, it's not Electron's fault - which apparently when used in stealth internally produces just as fast and snappy UX's as native Apps.
You’re misrepresenting my argument.
I did not say Electron intrinsically produces snappy apps. I said that one CAN produce snappy Electron apps.
Which is indeed true, but as highlighted elsewhere by more reasonable individuals - the baseline for the web is slow. It requires expertise to do right, and in ways other platforms might not demand.
The benefit? Run it everywhere. The downside? $$$ and time. That’s why most just take their “run everywhere” benefit and accept the fact their app is going to be slow and/or a hog.
We’re discussing the platform’s potential, not the common case result of the platform’s broad userbase.
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