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I love having multiple copies of Chromium installed on my system at the same time. 250 MB internet messengers please!
You ever notice how everything installs and uninstalls super cleanly and easily these days and software gets consistent regular updates?
That's because developers stopped min/maxing storage and started bundling all of an application's dependencies with it instead of trying to rely on globally installed packages and frameworks that can break or be missing or lead to dependency hell.
No one likes larger download sizes and more storage being used but the tradeoff is by and large worth it.
Isn't this about performance and not storage?
Making and managing an electron app is easier, but it is possible (with more work) to have clean install/uninstall, a nice UI, and consistent regular updates while still being fast and efficient.
Better programs will always need more work to create.
I am curious about what other options there are, and why Electron is what a lot of people go with.
Options:
Native app for each platform:
Progressive Web App:
React Native:
Qt:
.NET MAUI (formerly Xamarin):
Electron:
Flutter is quite nice too. Closer to web dev, but still pretty close to native.
Tauri is also a more recent option, which uses the native webview. Not sure if it's suitable for production yet though.
Not really. Well maybe I take it for granted having switched to Linux.
I mostly hate Electron for the dumb RAM usage.
Pretty sure that's more about a switch from physical distribution where storage is expensive (CDs) to digital where it's cheap.
Well, Telegram uses 690 MiB on my system and Thunderbird uses 1.1 GiB.