Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows 10?

Re:Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows... by nickjj on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:56PM (#19436992)

> Electron is undoubtedly slower and more resource-intensive than other options, but outside of specific audiences (HN readers) I bet most people won't care.

I think it makes even more of a difference for people outside of the HN audience.

A non-technical person might grab a $400 laptop from Costco with 4gb of RAM which is fairly common.

All it takes are a few Electron apps to exhaust that entire system's resources.

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Re:Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows... by baumandm on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @05:20PM (#19447060)

Fair points.

All I was trying to say was that Electron and other technical decisions should be evaluated by their actual business impact, which vary from app to app.

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Re:Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows... by anoncake on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:47PM (#19438759)

But will a non-technical person know which apps are to blame?

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Re:Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows... by nickjj on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @07:59AM (#19441180)

They will be able to determine "before I installed this app everything was good but now it's not" and then they will proceed to blame your app (with good reason).

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