Comment by scottapotamas
3 years ago
I know it's easy to point at Electron specifically for examples of poor performance (and the author acknowledged it) but Spotify isn't a great example - it's the CEF flavour of web based frontend.
Slack on the other hand...
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Always reminds me of the YouTube interview of Todoist's CTO where he was asked by the JetBrains guys what is the architecture of the desktop, and CTO sheepishly said Electron and the JetBrains interviewers couldn't stop laughing.
If anyone else is curious, they're talking about this video (happens at 5m42s):
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-o9MqN86eE#t=5m42s)
It really is all electron apps. The best I’ve used is VSCode (by far), but it’s still a resource hog.
that's why I use Slack in the browser. It's very snappy and much less power-intensive.
Does it support the video/screen sharing/huddles now?
Linux: In Firefox no, in Chrome yes.