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Re:Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation by fny on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:43PM (#24323966)
Why did you choose to use electron for something so specific to MacOS?

Awesome project by the way. This will save my wrists from a lot of pain.

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Re:Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation by dexterleng on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:48PM (#24323999)
The app is written in Swift, not Electron.

Vimac had major performance issues previously when traversing the UI Element tree of Electron/Webkit apps.

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Re:Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation by hibiscus4156 on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:47PM (#24323995)
> Why did you choose to use electron for something so specific to MacOS?

I think you're mistaken. OP is referring to Discord as the webkit/electron app.

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Re:Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation by messe on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:48PM (#24323998)
I don’t think they did. They’re just talking about the high cpu usage when trying to navigate an electron app while using vimac.
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