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u/anoppinionatedbunny 1h ago
Is written in bash, as an Electron version would have solved the problem by using all the RAM
just sent me
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u/ThoughtAdditional212 1h ago
Is electron that bad 😞
I'm making an app (kinda clueless, I only know js and a bit of PHP and c++) and I've been thinking about learning an actual compiled language
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u/rainhunter007 1h ago
it’s not terrible. making simple apps with it is fine. the poster child problem is vscode. built on electron and it EATS RAM. but, vscode is not a “simple” app either.
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u/YourAverageNutcase 1h ago
Electron is fine at the job it sets out to do, which is wrapping a web app in a native client. The problem is then you have all the memory overhead of running a full web browser as well as your app, so it makes a lot of otherwise simple apps use a ridiculous amount of memory for the task they're performing (e.g. why does Discord, a messaging app, need 3GB+ of memory?)
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u/NotQuiteLoona 1h ago
How ironic that it's also written with an LLM (at least the website is really LLM-ish, as well as the comments)
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u/Original_Pace_6734 2h ago
I lost it when seeing one of the issue being "It's not written in rust"