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I HATE electron(lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

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rumschlumpel@feddit.de
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A lot of the time, the alternative would be a website running in the browser.

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crispy_kilt@feddit.de
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I’d prefer that. One firefox instance can easily run 10 big fat websites while using like 6GB of RAM. 10 electron apps on the other hand? 32GB RAM won’t be enough.

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Mio@feddit.nu
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Have fun updating those Electron

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MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
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Electron IS a browser. It’s a Chromium browser to be exact with all the Chromium UI elements except the very bare minimum removed.

So the only difference that remains is running a website in a tab or in a fancy window.

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rumschlumpel@feddit.de
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I know that Electron is a browser. But the issue is that it’s a different browser, and AFAIK Electron applications don’t share libraries etc. like Chrome/Firefox tabs would, which makes Electron apps even more inefficient than web apps.

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ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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Yeah, I’d rather a website

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