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Comment by Kiro | Hacker News Reader

What's wrong with the electron app?

It reduces the available resources for my dev vms (read: actual work) by a disproportionate amount

Especially if you are signed into multiple workspaces. The performance degradation increases by a factor of two for each workspace I am signed into.

That said, there are ways to create performant electron apps (vscode as an example), just seems like slack isn't able to do that for some reason.

Its terrible on memory if you are connected to multiple workplaces.

I personally don't have a problem with it, but a lot of people have a problem with it taking up a bit of system resources, primarily ram.

You can reduce this a huge amount by simply using it in a tab in a browser. When I'm travelling I use it this way, as it eats much less battery - I just pin a tab.

Thanks! The only Electron app I use is Visual Studio Code and it works great so was curious.

(Crazy btw that I get downvoted to oblivion within seconds for asking an honest question.)

an example -- i currently have 3 workspaces on my slack client (on linux) and it's currently using 500mb of RAM, which is insane for a chat client. the only thing using more ram is firefox with literally 25 tabs, including gmail's inbox and pocketcasts playing a podcast (~1gb).

As others have said, it's not great resources-wise, but it also doesn't fit in well with the OS.

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