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I’m envy? I’m hoping for a native GUI application for Linux.

Electron looks ugly, it doesn’t integrate, fails to handle HiDPI usually, in best case it eats a ridiculous amount of memory (factor 5x compared to native) and in worst case it has security issues due to Blink and lot of JS.

Electron is Flash for the Desktop.



Electron is the only cross platform UI that is open and using web standards that are not tied to a single company.

It is exactly the opposite of flash.


The person being replied to was talking about technical aspects similar between the two (functionality like HiDPI and performance) while you're mentioning socially-oriented differences. I would say both statements are true but that what the authors of each statement value is different.


Writing it is just like Flash is a statement that Electron should be dropped and never used by anyone.

Which I disagree with and provide my argument to show that any technical inconveniences parent poster noted, are not enough to say “Electron should be trashed and razed out”.


Ohh, I wish it was only a factor of five. It would even be acceptable!

Discord the Electron app uses 1.2 GB of RAM.

Ripcord the compiled client uses about 30 MB of RAM.

That's a factor of over 42 times.


I agree. Whenever I can choose between a webapp/Electron or a native app, I'll always go with the native app.




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