I really like the old version better. I really dislike this "cross platform" crap that runs terrible. It's like using a javascript app. Not only that, they don't even have it for Linux, so what's the point of doing a cross platform interface...
That said, I personally don't have a huge issue with Electron apps on face value - some of them (VSCode, for example) seem to outperform their native counterparts quite handily (in this case, VS - install time, upgrade time, cold start time, warm start time, actual usage). That tells me that the implementation choices affect performance as much as the underlying technology.
Electron apps might beat other electron apps (VSCode over Atom), but we're still a long sight off from electron apps beating compiled ones in most cases.
None of your alternatives have built in JavaScript debugging or multiple projects per workspace.
Debugging: Fair enough. VSCode is starting to stray toward IDE, which the others described specifically exclude. They focus on the text editing and leave the debugging for other specialized programs. VSCode would make sense to be an IDE since it's coming from a Visual Studio lineage though.
Multiple Projects per Workspace: Sublime has this as a project can have any number of folders added to it. A sublime project is equivalent to a VSCode Workspace unless I'm missing a nuance somewhere. Vim and Emacs are less useful in this regard, though they have project management plugins. Most of the time, Vim and Emacs will just save off a workspace in what they call a "session". You can load the session and be exactly where you left off (down to the cursor position). These can also be configured to happen on startup/shutdown.
If they ever EoL the old true native Github Desktop, I'll probably switch full time to Fork, which is native Cocoa and generally great. I already use it a lot, but there are times when Github Desktop does things a little better.
I've been using either the command line or GitKraken, but it's always nice to see a new tool :)
You may actually get me to delete SourceTree, which is a high bar to clear. Despite all the major issues with SourceTree, like locking the main thread for 3 minutes, pinning the CPU to 100% just because a file was staged, and refreshing the diff view 100 times in a single minute, I haven't been able to switch away from yet.
P.S. your Cartfile is being copied into the resources folder :)
* A lot of the right-click context menus have vanished from the old version to the new, which really changes the workflow.
* Integration with Atom is super buggy, to the point where it literally doesn't work for me. I used to be able to right click and open in Atom, but now if I use the shortcut to open in Atom it just gives an error claiming Atom isn't installed when it is. Opening up the old github desktop app and attempting to launch atom had no issues.
* Integration with Github itself is super flaky. Normally the "open in desktop" launches the github desktop client, but after installing the new version it literally doesn't do anything at all.
I'm honestly really surprised that this is a v1.0.0 release. Normally Github does a better job of making sure their releases, well, actually work.
It is a JavaScript app.
32GB will be minimum system requirements for a developer at this rate.
It looks like theres an osx port now. Im super excited. GitExtensions was literally the best at everything for my workflows.