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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by Kiro on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:32AM (#28206824)
Electron adds no more overhead than Chrome does. Any snappy web app can be packaged as an Electron app and be equally snappy. So if there are no snappy Electron apps it's because of the web, not Electron.
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Re:Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electr... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:18AM (#28207094)
> So if there are no snappy Electron apps it's because of the web, not Electron.

That is, indeed, the argument, except without the "if" part.

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