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0 pointsnickjj7y ago0 comments

> Electron is undoubtedly slower and more resource-intensive than other options, but outside of specific audiences (HN readers) I bet most people won't care.

I think it makes even more of a difference for people outside of the HN audience.

A non-technical person might grab a $400 laptop from Costco with 4gb of RAM which is fairly common.

All it takes are a few Electron apps to exhaust that entire system's resources.

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anoncake7y ago· 1 in thread

But will a non-technical person know which apps are to blame?

nickjjOP7y ago

They will be able to determine "before I installed this app everything was good but now it's not" and then they will proceed to blame your app (with good reason).

baumandm7y ago

Fair points.

All I was trying to say was that Electron and other technical decisions should be evaluated by their actual business impact, which vary from app to app.

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