Re:Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store
by imtringued on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @04:51AM
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I once used this pattern and implemented the webserver using C++. It was quite interesting that I could read gigabytes worth of files and run a sqlite database in the same process and still not exceed 3MB of RAM. Of course the tab in the browser used a lot more RAM (maybe 25MB) but browsers can suspend or simply close tabs. With regular applications the GUI would always be loaded in memory.
The reason why this pattern isn't used more commonly is the fact that right now web browsers simply aren't designed to be used this way unless you start a new instance for just a single app. The second reason is that electron developers are lazy. They only want to test a single browser (or browser version) and are perfectly happy that this means Google can get away with shady things.
The reason why this pattern isn't used more commonly is the fact that right now web browsers simply aren't designed to be used this way unless you start a new instance for just a single app. The second reason is that electron developers are lazy. They only want to test a single browser (or browser version) and are perfectly happy that this means Google can get away with shady things.