🦿 Lucian Marin Simplenote for macOS is now an Electron app. 3 processes, 40 threads, 120 MB of RAM, 150 MB of disk space just for taking notes. The old app had 1 process, 10 threads, 60 MB of RAM and only 5 MB of disk space.

Lois it's a joke. similarly nodeJS is the worst thing since ruby. theres literally not a single redeemable feature. and it has ruined web development. now everything has a build ritual. so hideously over complex now. and it's not even some kind of perf advantage. electron brought it to the desktop. good bye speedy desktop applications...

Martijn You know what would be even better? If people wrote those applications and put them on a domain where I can just use them with my own preferred browser

Tbd maybe contact Pauli from medium.com/dailyjs... and try to see if just a webkit wrapper would help.

Nkrs We have a report-generation tool at work that I wrote in Java; the build process outputs a fat .jar file that's 12MB large, and it's really fast. The only real problem is RAM consumption since it has to load the data into memory to process it, and it may go up to 200MB for a really large set of data. As for threads, we only use two, one for the UI and one for the background execution.