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Sean Wood

I'm on a late 2017 Macbook Pro (16GB). I have the following open all day, every day:

  • Slack (3 teams)
  • Discord (+-3 servers)
  • Visual Studio code (at least 5-6 projects open)
  • Hyper.app (2 instances)
  • Caprine - FB Messenger client
  • Gitkraken
  • Wavebox - Email client (2 accounts)

They're all Electron based.

They all work perfectly.

I do not have a problem, even thought I'm probably running Photoshop, Lightroom, Zeplin, Whatsapp, Spotify, multiple windows of Chrome, Firefox, the odd note taking app and at least 20 background utilities.

And goodness me, the people slating Electron because it promotes Javascript, a "buggy" programming language: are you kidding? Disliking Javscript because it is less rigid than C++ (a fantastic language if used appropriately and for the right thing) is a symptom of lack of understanding of the technology as well as a severely parasitic mindset in the world of science.