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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by piracykills on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:09AM (#16437596)
You have some choice native apps - Sublime is Python, which is rather horrible with memory usage and Thunderbird essentially embeds a browser just like Electron apps.

Compare VSCode or Atom with Emacs or Gvim for something more native.

To pick some apps off my desktop right now:

- Emacs with a pile of extensions, 22 MB

- SpeedCrunch, 13 MB

- SumatraPDF, 19 MB

- MS Word, 101 MB

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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by vopi on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:11PM (#16440440)
Uhh sublime is written in C++ with it's own custom UI the toolkit iirc. It only uses python for scripting.
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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by laurent123456 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:28AM (#16437710)
In my list of applications that are always active, Firefox and ConEmu are also over 500MB too. The exception is Total Commander (amazingly, still compatible with Windows 3.1), which is only 20MB but it's more the exception than the rule.
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