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Comment by raw_anon_1111

18 hours ago

The bug in Slack is that it uses Electron

The overhead added by Electron is hardly that significant at this point, you can still use it to write significantly more efficient apps

  • The overhead of an entire browser engine isn’t significant compared to a native app?

    • No, compared to everything else in those apps. i.e. if they are writing extremely bloated Electron apps why would the native version be less slow and bloated? I mean Electron's overhead is mostly fixed (it's still a lot but its possible to keep memory usage we below 1 GB or even 500 BB even for more complex applications).

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