🏒 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...

🏒 Lucian Marin I find Node.js to be much friendlier than Java based alternatives: Clojure, ClojureScript running on Node.js (this is a thing nowadays), Scala or Kotlin. Java is a menace. I will always pick the right tool for the job, Python on backend, JavaScript on frontend. I find no reason for cross compilation.

Lois it's madness, and regarding java, that goes without staying. never heard of kotlin or scala. i like python, best thing to be working with. javascript is unavoidable on the front end, though i prefer jquery. saves a lot of needless agro.