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Re:Ode to the M1 by wiseowise on Sunday August 13, 2023 @04:51AM (#37107959)
> Practically no consumers care except for other software engineers complaining loudly on HN, and meanwhile companies save millions by not handcrafting their CRUD apps in assembly.

And you know that because you’ve analyzed whole market and know opinion of users of every web software? Definitely not because you only live in bubble of other software engineers so you’re not exposed to complaints of common folk?

Re:Ode to the M1 by satvikpendem on Sunday August 13, 2023 @04:56AM (#37107989)
No end consumers I know or even acquaintances of other people I know even know nor care about Electron. You might say that I'm in a bubble but at that point it's just the No True Scotsman fallacy.
Re:Ode to the M1 by wiseowise on Sunday August 13, 2023 @05:12AM (#37108104)
Literally all of my acquaintances in previous company complained about Teams being slow and buggy. I also see it constantly being mentioned online.
Re:Ode to the M1 by jauntywundrkind on Sunday August 13, 2023 @11:33AM (#37110908)
You can make slow & buggy software anywhere, with any stack. Teams themselves shipped a whole release focused around sucking significantly less & were getting much faster.

Discord has gotten pretty solid, vscode is spit fast. The hate against Electron feels so selective & antagonistic, picks it's targets, never acknowledged any value, never recognizes any points for the other side. It is just incredibly lopsidedly biased. Over what doesn't feel real to so many.

I was hoping Tauri would be the one, by using a shared library model. That would drop memory consumption down significantly. But they use webkit on Linux and I'm sorry but I want a much better base that supports more modern capabilities.

Re:Ode to the M1 by LtWorf on Sunday August 13, 2023 @08:54AM (#37109540)
They don't know how it's called, they still hate when they are forced to use slow applications.