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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by dokem on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:07PM (#16979643)
I think you are taking developers' choice in framework a bit too personally.
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by tomc1985 on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @02:48PM (#16980002)
And I think most users are far too tolerant of bad decisionmaking
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by LyndsySimon on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:13PM (#16980759)
Respectfully, losing a single potential user is not indicative of "bad decisionmaking". It may very well have been an excellent decision, particularly if using Electron allowed them to support macOS and Windows out the door - thereby expanding their target audience significantly.

I get why you don't like Electron apps. I share your position in that. I would expect that if Ivelope grows quickly enough to justify it, time will be spent on improving resource utilization. That could be through scrapping Electron or through optimizing within it - but either way, at this stage "time to market" and "speed of iteration" are much more important than resource utilization.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by saagarjha on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:39PM (#16980942)
> Respectfully, losing a single potential user is not indicative of "bad decisionmaking"

It's not just one user that they've lost…

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by dumbfounder on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:25PM (#16980337)
They aren't tolerant at all to decisions they think are bad, they are just tolerant to ones that you think are bad.
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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by Avamander on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @07:39PM (#16982113)
So you're calling me not a potential user because I don't like the idea of something using 15% of my PCs memory, best case scenario.
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