Comment by eadmund
6 days ago
> Eeeh, the Electron issue is oveblown.
> These days the biggest hog of memory is the browser.
That’s the problem: Electron is another browser instance.
> I don't think a few hundred megs taken by your average Electron app is gonna move the needle.
Low-end machines even in 2025 still come with single-digit GB RAM sizes. A few hundred MB is a substantial portion of an 8GB RAM bank.
Especially when it’s just waste.
And this company that says: let's push to the users the installer of our brand new app, that will reside in their tray, which we have made in electron. Poof. 400MB taken for a tray notifier that also accidentally adds a browser to the memory
My computer: starts 5 seconds slower
1mln of computers in the world: start cumulatively 5mln seconds slower
Meanwhile a Microsoft programmer whose postgres via ssh starts 500ms slower: "I think this is a rootkit installed in ssh"