alt Hacker News> most actual customers have more RAM than they need anyway,
Screw the rest and if every app is an electron app that’s not true at all. It works if few apps are Electron apps
> and you can still call out to native code for the perf sensitive part
What is rarely done
It’s just another reason why computer get faster and faster but apps don’t.
Thanks to electron apps I can type faster than the program reacts and sometimes it even misses a key.
Did never happen on a desktop app
In very recent memory, apps in general being cross-platform was "rarely done". The alternative world without something like Electron is not perfect native applications on every platform, it's choosing to support one or both of the major operating systems that people actually use.
If you've never had a native app skip or a key or lag because you typed too fast, I don't know what to tell you. I've used some real garbage production software written entirely in God's own C that had those problems. I have twelve instances of VSCode open right now, some with huge projects, and cumulatively they're taking up less than 2GB of memory. It's just throwing stones in the wrong direction to put this blame on Electron at this point.