So, on the one hand we've had this discussion here a ton of times: People are using Electron because it means faster shipping, easier cross-platform development, and so on. But on the other hand, the amount of hackery in Slack[1] that needs to happen just to get a level of performance and memory usage that comes within the ballpark of a native application is so high that it begs the question: At what point does the amount of work needed to get basic levels of performance negate the initial gains of building the application using a tool like Electron?
I'm not trying to troll and say "Electron bad" btw, I'm genuinely curious.
I'm not trying to troll and say "Electron bad" btw, I'm genuinely curious.
[1] See also: Optimizing VSCode, for instance: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...