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Re:Electron and the Decline of Native Apps by ngrilly on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:09PM (#18632146)
> BBEdit and Sublime Text these days, both of which are much faster and less resource-intensive than their cross-platform counterparts

Sublime Text is fast and cross-platform.

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Re:Electron and the Decline of Native Apps by chipotle_coyote on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:17PM (#18632204)
True, and I meant to mention that along with Emacs and Vim but spaced it while typing. It seems to be similar to those two in its approach.

They're all good reminders that being cross-platform isn't the issue; it's the way Electron does it that's more of a problem. (Qt-based apps are a lot more performant, although in my experience they stick out like sore thumbs among apps using the native GUI toolkits.)

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Re:Electron and the Decline of Native Apps by craftyguy on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:17PM (#18632205)
So is vim.
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