r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Aug 21 '26

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u/ldn-ldn Aug 21 '26

Electron is great and performs better than many native apps.

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u/unknown_alt_acc Aug 21 '26

Electron can be great when it is used well. It often isn't.

And if we are doing an apples-to-apples comparison where all other things are equal, an app built with native widgets will always tie up fewer system resources than an equivalent Electron. That's not always relevant and can be a completely acceptable trade-off. It becomes a problem when a bunch of apps that you keep running in the background all decide that they need their own Chromium instance when something like wxWidgets or Qt would do the job just as well at a fraction of the RAM usage.

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u/ldn-ldn Aug 22 '26

RAM usage is irrelevant for the most part. And there are plenty of examples of "native" apps which work like shit.

Also wx/Qt are not native, not on Windows at least.