Will Electron take over native macOS development?

Post by woah » Fri, Jul 03, 2020, 8:05 PM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #7

ajconway wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because of how the compositing works, it’s not uncommon to have 100 or more megabytes of RAM taken by the UI alone. Not a bad thing though, it allows for simpler and more performant animations. Other than that, I’m not familiar with any particular features of the OS that unnecessary spend resources. Do you have examples?

Finder (made 10000x worse by their "inadvertent" disabling of DaisyDisk because of "security") Mail (completely garbage, can't update 300 emails within 5 hours), yet takes up 400mb in the Activity Monitor Not identifying what exactly is the 1.18gb "java" process thats running right now (maybe elasticsearch? why not surface this info in activity monitor?) I mean I have a million examples, I try to do lots of novel res…

Post by jonpalmisc » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 10:45 AM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #3

macOS has terrible resource management (probably a fault of the developers of various major apps). EDIT: Lmao, look at kernel_task, a mysterious phantasm that seems to be using 2gb at any moment. Look at other abstract, undocumented Apple processes that just exist, and you have no control over them. It's literally insane. Electron has even worse resource management, since its built on top of Chromium, which doesn't e…