Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
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Re: Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
#2https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311#issuecomme...
If this comment is to be believed, it's not Apple's fault. It's the apps mucking around with the internals of AppKit.
This example just happens to illustrate two of my least favorite software engineering practices: (1) despite one piece of code making a method private, another piece of code still overrides it/modifies it/calls it, an affront to the idea of encapsulation; (2) a piece of code has different behavior depending on the identity of a function, contrary to the principle of extensionality.
Re: Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
#3Don't Electron-based apps cause lag on basically any system?
Re: Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
#4Discord and VSCode work smoothly for me on an M4 MBP -- not sure if it's a compatibility difference or just performance hiding the problem, though.
But Spotlight file search is completely broken, rebuilding the index doesn't help, and web results are the only thing it returns. After 20 years of intense research, Apple finally caught up to Microsoft in race to make search broken and useless.
Re: Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
#5I was just noticing the stuttering and lag but I hadn’t tracked it down to electron yet.
Re: Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
#6FWIW haven't experienced this at all on an M4 Max (with Slack and VSCode open).
Re: Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
#7Don't Electron-based apps cause lag on basically any system?
Perhaps, but this specific case appears to be related to (ab)use of a private API on Electron's part.
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/48311#issuecomme...
Re: Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
#8Don't Electron-based apps cause lag on basically any system?
I know it's a defacto complaint to leverage against Electron apps, but memory usage notwithstanding, I've never run into much lag issue on any major Electron app.
Re: Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
#9Don't Electron-based apps cause lag on basically any system?
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Re: Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe
#10Discord and VSCode work smoothly for me on an M4 MBP -- not sure if it's a compatibility difference or just performance hiding the problem, though. But Spotlight file search is completely broken, rebuilding the index doesn't help, and web results are the only thing it returns. After 20 years of intense research, Apple finally caught up to Microsoft in race to make search broken and useless.
Search works great for me, I’m sorry it broke on your machine but it needs to be broken for everyone to be on Microsoft’s level