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Comment by rubymamis

I highly disagree. Web apps are notoriously slow. I'm developing a Notion alternative in Qt C++ that load large text files on my 2017 MacBook Air while on my friend's 2021 M1 Pro, the fastest web based block editor (MarkText) takes around 11x longer to load the same file. So, essentialy, my 2017 MacBook Air is FASTER just due to more efficient software.

Why are we allowing this degradation of software? Each time I think about opening Spotify (Electron) on my desktop, I dread the loading time and the RAM it would use.

For very simple apps, frameworks like Tauri should do the job. But for complex applications, let's please not lose our benchmarking standards.

My app: https://www.get-plume.com/

parent rubymamis 2 years ago

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