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  • Hm, yeah, I think it’s definitely better now. The things you mention mostly sound like intermittent issues that I would notice for an hour or two actually. I don’t even really hold those against the product since they would have weird glitches sometimes but they always fixed them quicker than any software team I’d been on would’ve.

    My thought about electron is that it has trade offs like any other tech. I think it’s cool that web developers can publish cross platform desktop apps without needing to learn a lot of new things and work around as many platform issues. That feels like a construct that would necessarily come at a performance cost. I’d probably be pissed if every app was moving to electron but as it stands I likely don’t run more than 2 or 3 at a time.

    I wish that the Firefox equivalent to electron would come back though, because fuck Google.




  • 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.