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Re:Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues by jakear on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:54PM (#24805425)
> My partner uses MS teams on a beater of a windows laptop with at most 4GB of ram and it performs substantially better.

So not an electron issue, an engineering issue. That's I think at the root of all these "electron is bad" comments... poorly engineered code is slow. It will be slow if it's C++ or JS or Perl. But well engineered code is fast. And it can be fast in C++ or JS or Perl.

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Re:Slack outage: Degraded performance and connectivity issues by maccard on Friday October 16, 2020 @07:24PM (#24805975)
I don't disagree, but starting in electron is going to make your life much more difficult. Well engineered electron-based code may still be slower than shoddy C++

As an example, I've been playing with web frameworks recently. Asp.net running on dotnet core is roughly 10 times faster than node running express. While well engineered js might not get much slower, you'll never close that gap.

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