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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by matchbok on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:46PM (#20500393)
And yet, the performance is still bad. And that is only 1 of many reasons why electron is bad.
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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by _verandaguy on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:08PM (#20501243)
A hundred times this; 500-1000mb of idle memory usage by a chat client is patently silly.
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Re:When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop by therealdrag0 on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @06:12PM (#20510691)
Sure, but on my MBP it's never been a problem. I've never had slack lag regularly or notice it impacting other programs. :shrug:
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