TL;DR: One man’s “this is fine” is another’s raging house fire.

I use the same spec’d computer as the author, but I regularly quit Slack when I notice my fans spin up or my other apps swapping. Usually the culprit is a GIF in Slack burning 100% of a core or my entire organization’s thousands of channels bloating my working set. Either way, a restart is in order.

I think the fixed-size 100mb RAM cost of a typical Electon app is lamentable, but a non-issue with 16gb RAM + virtual memory + SSD.

If I ever need to write a desktop app, I’ll still use Electron — I’m not going to learn QT or Tk, or force my team to do the same.