As a user and a developer, I love Electron and the concept of it. I hate what it does to my system though. It's February 2018 and I have a (still relatively) beefy laptop - Dell XPS 9530 (16 GB RAM, quad proc Core i7, SSD) and it introduces very substantial lag to almost everything I do. I just had to close out all my apps and chrome windows and went looking for when this resource allocation issue was going to get fixed and found this post.
As more apps are built on Electron, it eats up more resources. I suspect graphics RAM usage is the main culprit here (Intel embeded 460 graphics, probably 4 year old tech now but still very functional) and this needs to be fixed in order to keep everyone happy.
As for the apps I know are built on Electron that I use: 3x Slack teams, VS code, Atom, Postman, and Azure Storage Explorer.
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As a user and a developer, I love Electron and the concept of it. I hate what it does to my system though. It's February 2018 and I have a (still relatively) beefy laptop - Dell XPS 9530 (16 GB RAM, quad proc Core i7, SSD) and it introduces very substantial lag to almost everything I do. I just had to close out all my apps and chrome windows and went looking for when this resource allocation issue was going to get fixed and found this post.
As more apps are built on Electron, it eats up more resources. I suspect graphics RAM usage is the main culprit here (Intel embeded 460 graphics, probably 4 year old tech now but still very functional) and this needs to be fixed in order to keep everyone happy.
As for the apps I know are built on Electron that I use: 3x Slack teams, VS code, Atom, Postman, and Azure Storage Explorer.