The Electron App Experience

App name: Text editor
Requirements: 64GB Ram, 1TB storage space.

64GB Ram :'(
1TB Storage :''''''(

Ah VSCode has been renamed?

@PsCustomObject vs code is the new chrome. I have only a few add-ons and it still uses more ram than 20ish chrome tabs with many having videos xd

@ilikeglue Well, technically, it is Chrome...

@ilikeglue che lol so true yet I see horse of people swearing to the gods of code it is the ‘bestest (sic.) IDE’ in the world.

I had a funny discussion with a colleague about it the other day :-)

Necroing this one, but the perf gripes still hold up -- Electron shipping an entire browser just to render a settings page is objectively silly, no defense there. "Go native" is easy advice when you're not the one maintaining three separate codebases on a deadline, though. The RAM tax is what it is, but at least the DX side doesn't have to hurt too -- electron-shadcn-typescript wires up Electron + React + TS + Tailwind + shadcn with hot reload and multi-platform builds already sorted, so you're not also fighting the boilerplate on top of the bloat.