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In defence of Electron II

Will Stone on January 18, 2018

August last year, Mo Bitar, wrote an article on dev.to titled In Defense of Electron. The comments quickly descended into debates about RAM usage a...
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Kasey Speakman •

Yeah, I don't get all the hate for Electron. I use VS Code and have never had a concern with it for RAM or CPU usage. Webpack and Elm compilation are far bigger CPU hogs. We've even considered using it for internal desktop apps, because web stuff is our wheelhouse and frankly I'm not impressed with desktop UI frameworks I've used. If it is significantly faster for us to dev, then RAM usage is a small price to pay. The part of Electron I expect to be difficult is integrations with other software, like QuickBooks. I don't actually want to write javascript code for that.

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Will Stone •

Some people really do hate Electron: electron.wtf/2017/10/17/web-browse...

A vapid meta-browser that we hoped only existed in xzibit's wildest Gödelian-dreams. The goal of browserosaurus? To become your default browser. Why? because it wants you to use your default browser so you can get a list of al your browsers so you can select which browser to use every time you click a link. Although tragic, some things really deserve to be extinct.

Nice.

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Sergey Kislyakov •

I wonder if WebAssembly would somehow affect the performance of Electron applications.