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RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components (www.windowslatest.com)
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  • Windows Latest discovered Discord and other Chromium and Electron-based applications with high RAM usage
  • RAM usage spikes from 1GB to 4GB on Discord both in and out of voice chat
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[–] 8 points 11 months ago (9 children)

This is a trade off. Many of these apps work on osx and Linux because they are browser-based. If they go back to native apps you lose that portability.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    There are, but few of them also work on the web as an alternative to the desktop. Writing one shitty web app and offering Electron wrapped versions of it gets you a webapp, a Windows app, a Linux app and a MacOS app. And you already have web devs on the team because everyone does.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I hate that you are right. Giving up electron would likely mean less Linux and mac compatibility. It's a shame, but it's likely true.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    For commercial software, definitely. It'd be web and MAYBE Windows unless there's a Qt nerd spearheading the project or something.

    FOSS is actually better off here IMO, since it's done by people as passion projects, so there's no need to pinch pennies by eliminating target platforms. HOWEVER there'd also be more need for the devs to have different platforms to test on.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    electron was a steaming pile of shit 8 years ago. still is. what's changed?

    our acceptance of shitty corporate software.

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