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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by coldtea on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:58AM (#16975738)
All other things being equal of course not.
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by rootlocus on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:26AM (#16975874)
> All other things being equal

All other things will never be equal.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by coldtea on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:57PM (#16981885)
Absolutely equal no, or else it would be the same app. But that's contrived.

My point is that given two apps that both have the features a user considers "must have", few, if any, would pick the Electron one over the native, precisely because of the extra burden in cpu/memory/speed of Electron.

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