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Ask HN: Which app that shouldn't use Electron.js, yet it is?

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Re: Ask HN: Which app that shouldn't use Electron.js, yet it is?

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Post by jafingi » Sun, Nov 10, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #10

> are there any Electron.js app that you know, that really simple and shouldn't be using Electron, yet it is ? I could do a lot with a very fast Git GUI client that is able to index at least 50K - 100K+ commits that are pulled from its repository and to be able to bisect and find a regression or to search for a specific commit in the history. Unfortunately I have tried GitHub for Desktop, GitKraken and a VSCode exten…

How about Sublime Merge? [0]

From the guys behind Sublime Text. Amazingly fast (and native).

[0] https://www.sublimemerge.com/

Re: Ask HN: Which app that shouldn't use Electron.js, yet it is?

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Post by itake » Mon, Nov 11, 2019, 6:25 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #10

> are there any Electron.js app that you know, that really simple and shouldn't be using Electron, yet it is ? I could do a lot with a very fast Git GUI client that is able to index at least 50K - 100K+ commits that are pulled from its repository and to be able to bisect and find a regression or to search for a specific commit in the history. Unfortunately I have tried GitHub for Desktop, GitKraken and a VSCode exten…

This to me just seems like Github Desktop and Gitlens are just poorly optimized for large repositories. If the git cli can handle large repositories, then so should the JS ones. There wouldn't be anything inherently bad about using electron for this.

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