Comment by FlamingMoe

5 days ago

Claude Cowork is unusably slow on my M1 MacBook Pro. I wonder if Codex is any better; a quick search indicates that it is also an electron app

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btown  5 days ago

At least when I tried it last, Claude Cowork tried to spin up an entire virtual machine to sandbox itself properly - and not only is that sandboxing slow to start up, it also makes it difficult to actually interact freely across your filesystem. (Perhaps a feature, not a bug.)

Claude Code, on the other hand, has no such issues, if you've done some setup to allow all commands by default (perhaps then setting "ask" for rm, etc.).

zozbot234  5 days ago

Codex is a rust TUI app, and it's available as open source. It has nothing to do with Electron.

  • 16bitvoid  5 days ago

    Codex CLI is a TUI app, but Codex App is an actual desktop GUI app. If you actually look at the TFA, you'll see that all of the videos are of the desktop app.

    • conradev  3 days ago

      Yes! and if you install Computer Use from the Codex App you can also use it from the Codex CLI

  • ValentineC  5 days ago

    > Codex is a rust TUI app, and it's available as open source. It has nothing to do with Electron.

    I just updated Codex and looked inside the macOS app package. It is most definitely still an Electron app.

  • gempir  5 days ago

    Codex is both a macOS app and a CLI/TUI app.

    Their naming is not very clear. The codex desktop app is somewhat of a frontend for the codex cli.

    By the look and feel of it I would guess it is written with Electron.