Re:Angular on Electron
by LeoNatan25 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:41PM
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Compared to BBEdit, Sublime and Notepad++, Code is terribly slow. It behaves nothing like the OSes I try to use it (subtle, but very important).
Re:Angular on Electron
by TheTruestKyle on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:49PM
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I believe this to be true, but by how much I am curious? Anyone have benchmarks to point to? Generally curious as I am a web developer who loves the idea being able to finally make desktop apps. Thanks
Re:Angular on Electron
by LeoNatan25 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @05:55PM
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What does “able to finally make” even mean? Who stopped you in the past? If you want to make desktop apps, learn desktop technologies. Or do you mean “I’m lazy and/or inconfident to learn anything other than JS”?
There are many articles on the subject. For instance: http://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
> I am a web developer who loves the idea being able to finally make desktop apps
Don't force square pegs into round holes.
Personally I found it incredibly slow, the interface is riddled with high latency input and response.
> CPU/RAM really at much of a premium
On laptops they are
Re:Angular on Electron
by LeoNatan25 on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:40AM
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Especially battery life. After removing all the Electron garbage from my MBP, I have seen a considerable increase in batter life.
Here's an example of a thread from the April update: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14267424
Electron is a resource hog, but is CPU/RAM really at much of a premium? I run VS Code and Slack on a used Macbook Air from 2012 without issue while also running Chrome and other processes.