• finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    I am not a programmer, but whenever I hear something is an electron app, I immediately expect it to be unresponsive as fuck and fail to perform its basic functions adequately. Does it really have a reputation to the contrary? Or is that the joke and I’m an idiot?

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      7 months ago

      Imagine if you strip almost everything from chromium. That’s electron. The platform which works 99% of the time normally, but sometimes requests 450Gbs of RAM

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.caBanned from community
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      7 months ago

      Uh, what are you still doing with that 64 core CPU, a terabyte of RAM and a petabyte SSD? How do you expect that ancient hardware to keep up with the speed of typing and your mouse movements?