Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by mlsarecmg on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:53AM
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Hasn't it already been pointed out a thousand times now that this was just a bug in Chrome that has been fixed right away?
Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by josephg on Thursday April 13, 2017 @07:38PM
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Sorry, I'm confused. Which part of this bad performance was a bug in chrome? The peaking up to 100% usage for a few hours? The shockingly bad performance rendering GIFs? The super high idle CPU usage? The high download size and ram usage?
I used the desktop slack client all of last year, and these kind of problems were present the whole time. This isn't some "oh, yeah there was some particularly egregious bug we shipped accidentally in October" thing. Whatever is making the slack client a bloated ball of crap is much worse than a simple, quickly fixed chrome bug. Its endemic.
Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by joking on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:54AM
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A bug that it's a lot more easy to be discovered and fixed when it affects so many people, How many "native" apps have similar battery hogging bugs that are not fixed because nobody founds about them?
But its worse than that - most users don't even know why their battery life is awful. So they blame apple, or microsoft, or dell or whoever. And they just don't use their computers as much, because its all a bit gross and slow. And thats bad news for our entire industry.