Electron allows small teams to focus their most costly investment on developing toward one product being developed across many platforms.
At the cost of battery life and memory usage for the users....
At the cost of battery life and memory usage for the users....
The memory usage hasn’t been bad enough for me to notice it stealing resources from other apps that need it. I don’t think most users notice.
I’m not talking about you. It’s clear this is a big deal to you, and so I assume you don’t use any electron apps. I think that’s a gamble most companies would make, losing a small number of users, to have the potential to gain many more.
Slack - Shouldn’t.
Yes, it's easy to make crappy memory hogs with Electron, but it's also possible to make fully-featured, snappy, great applications. Such as VSCode.