alt Hacker NewsConsidering the insane memory consumption of claude code running in my terminal, electron was never really the problem, bad software was the culprit all along.
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jorvi • today at 1:07 AM
Yup. VSCode is really fast and memory-frugal for an Electron application of that complexity.
Likewise, Gnome has proven that you can write entire UIs in Javascript and have them be quite performant.
Electron (well, Node is a big sub-culprit) and Javascript in general just make it really easy to create a slow, bloated application.
onemoresoop • yesterday at 8:03 PM
Can’t say that electron does not encourage bad software, quite the opposite
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Redster • yesterday at 8:08 PM
Always has been.
The culprit is using web technologies where they don't belong, which Electron is also guilty of. Claude Code is 400k lines of JavaScript for a TUI where a sane implementation in C would be two orders of magnitude less code.