Aaaand it’s electron garbage.

Out of the loop, what’s wrong with electron?

It’s basically Chrome. It’s not a real application, it’s a website pretending to be one. It uses a metric fuckton of RAM and eats your battery faster than Prince Andrew a minor.

If Firefox could allow their engine to be packaged like this I’d use it. The problem I see here is chromium. Everything is a trade off and we need more ways to build applications.

Slack, for example, is Electron and it runs great. One of the best apps I’ve used. And it works better than the browser version… The hate on Lemmy of electron is a bit of an overreaction of you ask me. Yeah it uses more ram than is necessary but again everything is a trade off. Not everything can be a hard to maintain rust app. Let’s try to embrace cross platform solutions, though yes fuck electron, so sure criticize that part of it.