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Let me fix the marketing for you: GitHub desktop is designed for our non Linux users. We felt like you weren't comfortable with a command line so we targeted you. Minimum system requirements quad core CPU and 32GB of ram.
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It's built with Electron, so it's not just like using a javascript app, you are actually using one. That said, I personally don't have a huge issue with Electron apps on face value - some of them (VSCode, for example) seem to outperform their native counterparts quite handily (in this case, VS - install time, upgrade time, cold start time, warm start time, actual usage). That tells me that the implementation choices…
Visual Studio is a far more full-featured IDE. A more objective comparison would be VSCode vs. Sublime. There you could say VSCode is comparable at best.
Let me fix the marketing for you: GitHub desktop is designed for our non Linux users. We felt like you weren't comfortable with a command line so we targeted you. Minimum system requirements quad core CPU and 32GB of ram.
I was hoping GUI for more administrative purposes. It would be cool to get desktop notifications when issues are created, code is pushed, etc. I have yet to see a tool/extension that integrated with GitHub this deeply.
It definitely seems like this could be useful for those who don't want to mess with the CLI (which is perfectly reasonable IMO).
I hope they don't discontinue their existing Windows and OSX Desktop Apps because this experiment is a value downgrade.
It makes sense (they can share code between Github Desktop standalone and their Atom-plugin, which does more or less the same thing as Github Desktop). Electron has many benefits (lots of people know JS; CSS is better than the standard macOS tools for GUIs). But with Slack, Atom, Hyper and now Github Desktop running on Electron, the memory usage is getting painful. They all use several hundred MBs each, sometimes wit…
We were already sharing code between platforms before JavaScript was invented. This Electron craziness looks like milenials just woke up and never experimented how nice it was to use MSHTML and XUL applications. I have high hopes Electron will join them.
They've gone to all the trouble of building an app using web technologies, but don't offer a Linux version? I develop on Linux because I deploy on Linux. I don't need a virtual assistant or animated emojis. I would quite like a nice Git UI however.
I still think git-cola is one of my favourite Git Ui's. Anyone know any other good ones?
Let me fix the marketing for you: GitHub desktop is designed for our non Linux users. We felt like you weren't comfortable with a command line so we targeted you. Minimum system requirements quad core CPU and 32GB of ram.
Oh, I always wanted to use 4gb of RAM to add files to Git.
I know hating Electron apps is the new fad, but it would be nice to check the facts before you grab your fork.
Let me fix the marketing for you: GitHub desktop is designed for our non Linux users. We felt like you weren't comfortable with a command line so we targeted you. Minimum system requirements quad core CPU and 32GB of ram.
Not sure why you’d bash it — the git cli is far from perfect and I for one welcome other perspectives on solving collaboration.
Now changing it to electron is another matter... I only have so much ram guys! With slack, Spotify, vscode, and a browser open on the same machine I’m screwed!