Re:Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
by chii on Monday December 25, 2017 @12:35AM
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instead of "best", I'd say people use what's good enough. electron is good enough for most people, and some people do notice the high resource usage, but they are in the minority, as most users don't attribute sluggishness of the machine on the app that's not slow (and electron can be made to feel fast if you know what you're doing).
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Re:Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language
by gkya on Monday December 25, 2017 @09:26AM
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Electron is not "good enough for people" because people don't know about it, or, to put it better, are not supposed to know about it. It's an implementation detail.
> sluggishness of the machine
So say a machine with 4GB ram and a decent 4-core CPU around 1.8 GHz is sluggish? Let's honestly say "we're sacrificing resources on the client side for ease of development on ours".