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Why the hate for electron? I know that there are a bunch of shitty electron apps out there, but there are also great, fast and leightweight examples. Visual Studio Code is easily one of the best desktop apps I've used (on Windows) and Discord is also built on electron and works very well.

Electron isn't necessarily bad, its primarly a matter of how good your implementation is.

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And when we compare it with Notepad++ or Sublime it is quite clear the performance lost in the process.

I only use VSCode for workflows I am obliged to.

Microsoft's React Native team has benchmarks where Electron causes 300x performance drop versus React Native.

Speaking of it,

"Xbox app for PC gets speed boost, ditching Electron for React Native UWP"

https://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-app-pc-gets-speed-boost-...

I dream of the day that VSCode gets rebooted into React Native.

>Why the hate for electron?

Because it's terrible. It's slow and ponderous. I have yet to use something built on it that wasn't awful, and that INCLUDES VSCode.

Have you tried 1Password for Linux? - Ben, 1Password

No reason to. I don't use desktop linux.

I'm also actively looking to move away from 1P period because I don't want or need a subscription for every little app.

1. Performance

2. It encourages developers to ignore platform-specific design idioms and features.

Have you found either of those applies to 1Password for Linux? If so we'd very much like to hear about it. Thanks! - Ben, 1Password

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