• @[email protected]
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    37 months ago

    people who like fast apps should care because like 99% of current software developers are building electron apps instead of giving us something that actually lets your high end computer behave like a high end computer.

    the only modern chat application that doesn’t run electron today is Telegram.

    the only cloud note taking app that doesn’t run electron is …uh. doesn’t even exist.

    the only…

    i can’t even think of something i use that was released after 2016 on my computer that doesn’t run at a crawl because of electron. fuck electron.

    • @ricdeh
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      17 months ago

      I am pretty sure all of the KDE suite software does not use Electron. Or are you using Windows?

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        using cinnamon. and yeah base software is largely fine. but non-base productivity apps are largely built in electron. cinnamon even offers a webapp tool so in some cases i can at least avoid it.