Electron... It's always so upsetting to see a tray widget require hundreds of megabytes of RAM to run.
What is a less resource intensive but similarly easy to use tool that would let you make desktop apps?
C# & WinForms
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#22I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage, not their app that they've spent a lot of effort on. It probably feels very demoralizing when people instantly disregard your app due to Electron's resource usage.
Electron is a very easy way to develop applications, and it's definitely doing something right. I've written Gtk (my preference) and Qt for ages, and developing stuff in Electron was mind-blowingly fast, trivial to debug, and trivial to produce packaged binaries for multiple platforms. It's very difficult to achieve a similar development experience with native toolkits, and I think we'll continue seeing more Electron apps until native toolkits offer a comparable development experience.
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#23I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage, not their app that they've spent a lot of effort on. It probably feels very demoralizing when people instantly disregard your app due to Electron's resource usage. Electron is a very easy way to develop applications, and it's definitely doing something right.…
Ultimately what matters is the user experience, not your development experience.
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#24I did Pomodoros all the time before I really started programming. Now I just like to lock into a flow and work until I can't or I get frustrated debugging and take a break
Indeed, I have never tried it because I always figured it was a work anti pattern. Glad to hear I'm not alone.
I do set a timer on my watch when I am taking a break (grabbing coffee / checking HN), but that's kind of the opposite of P.
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#25I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage, not their app that they've spent a lot of effort on. It probably feels very demoralizing when people instantly disregard your app due to Electron's resource usage. Electron is a very easy way to develop applications, and it's definitely doing something right.…
Ultimately what matters is the user experience, not your development experience.
Isn't some kind of balance important? You want to have code that you can maintain and that others can work on, but also efficiency. I don't know if it's one of those 'unobtainable golden middle' things, but I feel as though C didn't strike a bad place with regard to system programming.
Unfortunately I've found graphical toolkits just really unpleasant and unportable to work with. I would much rather write for the web. However I have never used Electron.
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#27I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage, not their app that they've spent a lot of effort on. It probably feels very demoralizing when people instantly disregard your app due to Electron's resource usage. Electron is a very easy way to develop applications, and it's definitely doing something right.…
They aren't being criticized for writing an electron app. The criticism is that they've written something that should be lightweight but isn't. Further, it probably is not useful unless it is lightweight.
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#28I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage, not their app that they've spent a lot of effort on. It probably feels very demoralizing when people instantly disregard your app due to Electron's resource usage. Electron is a very easy way to develop applications, and it's definitely doing something right.…
> I feel bad for folks using Electron.
Me too, so I've started down voting such comments. At this point they are off topic and distract from actual useful feedback.
OP: your app looks pretty nice. I'd suggest offering the choice of a more muted tray icon (dark on light, and light on dark).
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#29About 7yrs ago I published a basic pomodoro app to app store . I received intellectual property infringement notice from 'FC Garage GmbH' to take my app down, which I did. The email on that notice was legal@pomodorotechnique.com, so I assume it has something to with the guy who created it.
A trademark claim does not restrict you from selling your product it merely restricts you from using their name and logo (or confusingly similar name/logo)
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#30I feel bad for folks using Electron. As soon as they try to demonstrate their hard work, the top comments are people vocally decrying Electron's resource usage, not their app that they've spent a lot of effort on. It probably feels very demoralizing when people instantly disregard your app due to Electron's resource usage. Electron is a very easy way to develop applications, and it's definitely doing something right.…
> I feel bad for folks using Electron. Me too, so I've started down voting such comments. At this point they are off topic and distract from actual useful feedback. OP: your app looks pretty nice. I'd suggest offering the choice of a more muted tray icon (dark on light, and light on dark).
Hi! Thanks for the feedback. I'll surely look into it.