Slow, bloated, buggy af. Name one electron application that doesn’t struggle with state tracking over a long session, even just for simple shit like chat. The browser wasn’t supposed to be a real time application, no amount of trying to bolt it on will ever make it ok
Name one electron application that doesn’t struggle with state tracking over a long session
Slack. It’s one of the best apps I’ve ever used, and it’s built on electron. Not sure I’ve seen it struggle with “state” in general. It’s buggy sometimes but in the course of using it for like 10 years now I’ve had a 99.9% positive experience. I’d put vscode (electron) at even better status and it was made by a notoriously-shitty software company.
Maybe it’s been improved, i haven’t used slack in many years now. But i remember it having hilarious issues with state tracking. Trying to go back to old messages would fail half the time it would just scroll up to some random midway point then give up.
Would see notifications of new messages in a channel but didn’t see anything new until reloading slack. Based on what you are saying sounds like they fixed that. Which is good, however I’m willing to bet it still wants 1GB+ of memory just to display some text so bloated/slow still applies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And no I’m not one of those “just use irc” people. Telegram supports all the modern stickers, files, audio, etc but it’s fast and surprisingly light. But it’s also written in native C++ so that’s more expected
Besides being a part of the Google ecosystem, I really don’t get all the electron hate.
Well… When i started to use separate sacrificial hdd as zswap pool, i could finally afford to open second chrome tab
Slow, bloated, buggy af. Name one electron application that doesn’t struggle with state tracking over a long session, even just for simple shit like chat. The browser wasn’t supposed to be a real time application, no amount of trying to bolt it on will ever make it ok
Slack. It’s one of the best apps I’ve ever used, and it’s built on electron. Not sure I’ve seen it struggle with “state” in general. It’s buggy sometimes but in the course of using it for like 10 years now I’ve had a 99.9% positive experience. I’d put vscode (electron) at even better status and it was made by a notoriously-shitty software company.
Maybe it’s been improved, i haven’t used slack in many years now. But i remember it having hilarious issues with state tracking. Trying to go back to old messages would fail half the time it would just scroll up to some random midway point then give up.
Would see notifications of new messages in a channel but didn’t see anything new until reloading slack. Based on what you are saying sounds like they fixed that. Which is good, however I’m willing to bet it still wants 1GB+ of memory just to display some text so bloated/slow still applies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And no I’m not one of those “just use irc” people. Telegram supports all the modern stickers, files, audio, etc but it’s fast and surprisingly light. But it’s also written in native C++ so that’s more expected