the most infuriating aspect of electron, is is that multi-billion (and even multi-trillion) dollar corporations think it’s ok practice to release desktop clients using electron, like wtf, each one of them can hire ten teams to build ten completely new desktop toolkits, let alone just design their applications to use native system tools 🤷♀️🤦♀️
Like why does a communication app need to take up 1GB of my RAM??? Look at telegram desktop for example. It’s written in QT and it has a very low RAM usage.
Oh yeah, most of the time are just webapps presented as a full app in a store. There are good apps out there, but most of what you find are a waste of time, space, and resources.
Not just about RAM, it’s that most popular electron apps (like discord) ships really old versions of electron, and the some other electron app on your system may need another version of electron
You end up CVEs and duplicates of electron
I hate electron with a passion. Mandatory articles:
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VSCode is more functional and uses less resources than a comparable open source C++ editor, for example QT Creator […]
QT Creator is a full blown IDE. It would be more fair to compare it to Visual Studio, not Code.
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Both are full IDE’s though, to be fair. QtCreator even has a RAD for Qt which is really convenient.
Why do you say Qt for Linux isn’t good? All the Qt programs (and KDE) I’ve used on Linux worked great.
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I try to native apps as much as possible. If there isn’t one, I just use the web version of the app.
