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Re: Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows 10?

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anoncake wrote: post #50
nickjj wrote: post #49

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> Electron is undoubtedly slower and more resource-intensive than other options, but outside of specific audiences (HN readers) I bet most people won't care. I think it makes even more of a difference for people outside of the HN audience. A non-technical person might grab a $400 laptop from Costco with 4gb of RAM which is fairly common. All it takes are a few Electron apps to exhaust that entire system's resources.

But will a non-technical person know which apps are to blame?

They will be able to determine "before I installed this app everything was good but now it's not" and then they will proceed to blame your app (with good reason).

Re: Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows 10?

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Post by baumandm »

nickjj wrote: post #49
baumandm wrote: post #44

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Don't use Electon. Your users WILL notice and complain about performance. Is this actually true? Slack and Discord are valued at ~$7B and $2B respectively, and neither have found it necessary to move off their Electron apps. I assume both companies have already evaluated whether Electron's performance impacts their their bottom line, and concluded it does not. Electron is undoubtedly slower and more resource-intensiv…

> Electron is undoubtedly slower and more resource-intensive than other options, but outside of specific audiences (HN readers) I bet most people won't care. I think it makes even more of a difference for people outside of the HN audience. A non-technical person might grab a $400 laptop from Costco with 4gb of RAM which is fairly common. All it takes are a few Electron apps to exhaust that entire system's resources.

Fair points.

All I was trying to say was that Electron and other technical decisions should be evaluated by their actual business impact, which vary from app to app.

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