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> or a problem specific to Electron?

Oh and... if you want problems specific to Electron... I'm pretty sure Discord was keeping all the cat pictures and memes that it had ever displayed uncompressed, in ram, for a long while. Memory usage of several gigabytes if you had the meme channel open. Even it displayed only the last 3 cats.

It's better these days but it was a problem for years. And tbh I'm not sure they fixed it or even realized or cared about the problem or one of the 2498127 npm packages fixed it.



> Oh and... if you want problems specific to Electron...

It seems you don't get my point so let me be explicit:

Pointing out issues with a single framework that powers a subset of software does not mean there is a general decline in software quality across the industry.


Said framework has religious like defenders whose only motivation is "it's easier/cheaper for me and the user be damned" though.




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