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0 pointsAnonHP4y ago0 comments

> For myself, whenever I read these kinds of comments (or the tiresome refrain about absurd memory usage) it feels to me like there must be two Electrons: the first being the Electron which is the foundation of nearly every app I actually find useful these days (which do not exhibit e.g. exorbitant memory consumption issues [it's a marginal, non-issue increase in my experience] or higher bug-rates than native apps)

It’s also very tiresome to see such weak defenses when one looks around at the experience of people who have only 8GB RAM and are running Windows 10. If it’s just a war of anecdotes, I have several to share on why Electron is bad (or is badly used) by apps like MS Teams and others. Long ago, people used to complain about Java apps (mainly due to startup time). Electron apps make those seem like nothing to complain about. It’s not just high memory usage or the UX being poor, it’s also about being a poor citizen on the computer and making things worse for all the other applications running at the same time.

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westoncb4y ago

I only upgraded from my 8GB laptop a couple months ago. And I did run into issues with memory frequently—but here's the thing: I would be running 4 or 5 Electron apps at the same time and they were fine; the memory issues were always from Chrome, so I had to be careful not to keep too many open Youtube, Github, Amazon, etc. tabs open.

A heavier Electron App, e.g. Slack, would be equivalent to maybe two Youtube tabs, out of the ~50 tabs I would have open.

It's not ideal, but it's nowhere near as egregious as comments on HN would leave you to believe.

> it’s also about being a poor citizen on the computer and making things worse for all the other applications running at the same time

I'm not familiar with this argument. How is it a poor citizen aside the dubious claims about excess memory usage? Or is this just a repetition of that argument?

(Incidentally I've also had the misfortune of using MS Teams recently, and I would fully support anyone's complaints about it.)

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