Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app

Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by Barrin92 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:27AM (#28179326)

I still don't understand what people's hate for electron is. As someone who uses Windows, Linux and on occasion a mac it generally means you get a fairly consistent experience across all platforms and often it also means the linux version doesn't actually suck or you actually get linux support in the first place. Which is always a big plus for me.

Also I feel like the performance is decent at this point. For a fully featured app the difference to other frameworks is not that large any more.

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by jurip on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:31AM (#28179342)

I'm sure it's great for someone who uses multiple platforms. But if you use only one platform, the apps will feel off.

As for performance: it's not horrible, but the memory usage is.

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by mozey on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:31AM (#28179346)

Recently switched to VSCode from Jetbrains IDEs on MacBook Air M1, amazed at how much faster my editor boots up, and generally also more responsive. Haven't noticed any memory issues either, I only have 8GB RAM

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by simondotau on Saturday August 14, 2021 @06:15AM (#28179546)

Just when you thought the cycle of slower software gobbling up the gains of faster CPUs couldn't possibly continue forever...

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by mozey on Sunday August 15, 2021 @06:23AM (#28187650)

Maybe, but I regularly go two days on battery now. That's something I've never experienced with a laptop before. Notwithstanding inefficient software

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by ptx on Saturday August 14, 2021 @10:55AM (#28181129)

How recently? If you installed IntelliJ during 2020 it didn't have native ARM support yet[1], and had to be reinstalled to get it, so it would have been running in emulation.

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2020/12/intellij-idea-2020-3...

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by mozey on Sunday August 15, 2021 @06:21AM (#28187645)

I was using the ARM version, by slow I mean I can see the splash screen for a couple of seconds. Whereas VSCode starts up instantly. I've got `alias c='code .'`, typically I open the editor from iTerm2 the same way I would use vi. IntelliJ is still more advanced in many ways. I guess the point I was trying to make is that Electron looks like a better platform for cross platform apps compared to JVM.

Also, many NeoVim plugins are using component from VSCode, and the other way around.

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by dnh44 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:53AM (#28179439)

I’ve got two macs, one from 2016 with 8gb of ram. Running a single electron app on that computer results in the rest of the system becoming totally unresponsive making any sort of multitasking impossible.

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by tpush on Saturday August 14, 2021 @06:20AM (#28179568)

It's generally just a tiny portion of hard core Mac fans. The vast, vast majority of users (most of which use Windows) doesn't care at all.

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by aaaaaaaaaaab on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:32AM (#28179351)

>As someone who uses Windows, Linux

Yeah, your tolerance for inconsistent UX is much higher than longtime macOS users.

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by Dah00n on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:37AM (#28179370)

Mac has lots and lots of inconsistencies too. Some apps, like Music.app, is also pretty much an Apple version of electron. The inconsistencies aren't better on Mac, just different ones.

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Re:Not important enough: 1Password abandons its native Mac app by pseudalopex on Saturday August 14, 2021 @01:26PM (#28182395)

Long time macOS users haven't tolerated Music.app well either.

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