Electron is flash for the desktop

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Post by mrisse » Sun, Nov 06, 2016, 7:07 PM UTC

Electron is flash for the desktop
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Re: Electron is flash for the desktop

#2

Post by jones1618 » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 7:30 PM UTC

So true. I had to stop loading Slack at startup because it was using 400MB of memory and running eight threads. As the article says, come on, "It's just a text chat app." For Electron to be viable we need a "Chrome Core" library that just has a JavaScript engine and some OS glue.

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop

#3

Post by endemic » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 7:41 PM UTC

What benefits does running the "native" Slack app give over accessing the site in your (presumably already-running) browser?

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop

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Post by __derek__ » Mon, Nov 07, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

endemic wrote: post #3

What benefits does running the "native" Slack app give over accessing the site in your (presumably already-running) browser?

A separate icon in the Dock, I suppose.

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop

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Post by paulryanrogers » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 3:26 AM UTC

endemic wrote: post #3

What benefits does running the "native" Slack app give over accessing the site in your (presumably already-running) browser?

Theoretically, OS and hardware access outside the sandbox most browsers are confined to.

Toggl for example can log time per window title when it's app is running on desktop.

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop

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Post by Hydraulix989 » Tue, Nov 08, 2016, 7:46 AM UTC

There's no reason UIs should be laggy in 2016 on the very highest-spec Lenovo Thinkpad mobile workstation, but that's the sad reality of anything written in Electron JS (along with Electron's absolutely zero 4K Hi-DPI support on Linux, so I have to squint to read the microscopic text on Slack, Upwork, Discord, Messenger for Desktop, Whatsie, Skype for Linux Alpha, Atom, sometimes VSCode ...).