News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways. Parent comment

Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by clintonb on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @07:25PM (#16541251)
I keep hearing bad things about Electron, and have only now bothered to look it up. As a user of Slack, and whatever other applications I happen to use that are based on Electron, I don't care that the application isn't native. Electron is "good enough." I would imagine that 99% of users feel the same way.

Feel free to articulate your issues with such apps. So far, no one has really done that in the various comments online disparaging Electron.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by saagarjha on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:17PM (#16541493)
> Feel free to articulate your issues with such apps. So far, no one has really done that in the various comments online disparaging Electron.

What? Every time Electron comes up, people bemoan its battery and RAM usage.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways by tspike on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:20PM (#16542253)
It's slow. It kills your battery. It disregards standard platform idioms.
[ Parent | on HN ]