Why is Claude an Electron app? • Hacker News Board

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by cedws » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

rr808 wrote: post #7

Can we talk about how much copilot sucks in vscode? I have to use for work, buggy as hell for the premier product of a trillion dollar company.

I use Claude Code in Zed via ACP and have issues all the time. It pushes me towards using the CLI, but I don’t want to do things that way because it’s a vibe coding workflow. I want to be in the drivers seat, see what the agent has done and be able apply or reject hunks.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by shimman » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

SuperHeavy256 wrote: post #10

Call them out, call them out. Why isn't Claude a native Windows x64 app if code is free?

Seriously, they claim to be able to make a C compiler but they can't make a TUI without using javascript? It's beyond pathetic.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by 827a » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

Electron isn't that bad. Apps like VSCode and Obsidian are among the highest quality and most performant apps I have installed. The Claude app's problem is not electron; its that it just sucks, bad. Stop blaming problems on nativeness.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by overgard » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

I don't think anyone on the AI hype train cares about performance, memory usage, or code quality (measured by bugs). Customers will, though.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by thepancake » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:48 PM UTC

Nailed it.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC

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rr808 wrote: post #7

Can we talk about how much copilot sucks in vscode? I have to use for work, buggy as hell for the premier product of a trillion dollar company.

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Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by Austin_Conlon » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:49 PM UTC

Would be a much better UX if it had multi-window support and a separate settings window.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by hu3 » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:51 PM UTC

rr808 wrote: post #7

Can we talk about how much copilot sucks in vscode? I have to use for work, buggy as hell for the premier product of a trillion dollar company.

Not my experience. What doesn't work for you?

I use Opus 4.6 (for complex refactoring), Gemini 3.1 Pro (for html/css/web stuff) and GPT Codex 5.3 (workhorse, replaced Sonnet for me because in Copilot it has larger context) mostly.

For small tools. But also for large projects.

Current projects are:

1) .NET C#, Angular, Oracle database. Around 300k LoC.

2) Full stack TypeScript with Hono on backend, React on frontend glued by trpc, kysely and PostgreSQL. Around 120k LoC.

Works well in both. I'm using plan mode and agent mode.

What helps a ton are e2e playright tests which are executed by the agent after each code change.

My only complain is that it tends to get stutters after many sessions/hours. A restart fixes it.

$39/mo plan.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by awepofiwaop » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:51 PM UTC

overgard wrote: post #14

I don't think anyone on the AI hype train cares about performance, memory usage, or code quality (measured by bugs). Customers will, though.

Judging by the state of most software I use, customers genuinely could not care less about bugs. Software quality is basically never a product differentiator at this point.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by selridge » Sat, Feb 21, 2026, 10:52 PM UTC

Why stop there!

We should refuse to accept coding agents until they have fully replaced chromium. By that point, the world will see that our reticence was wisdom.