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Comment by robertoandred | Hacker News Reader

Just because you use non-native apps doesn't mean you like them. I mean, does anyone actually like Slack?

> I mean, does anyone actually like Slack?

Should I feel ashamed or something for saying yes? I hear all the bitching about how Electron is bloated, but I run Slack and VS Code all day and never have resource issues on my MBP.

No you dont have to be ashamed. If they run without any problems in your macbook pro then great. But they are massive resource hogs in my brother's PC where the RAM is limited to 8GB. Of course he complains that the slack app is quite heavy because he is not able to run a couple of other apps in parallel.

The solution we settled on is to run an android emulator and run slack and spotify in that. This restricts the usage to 500Mb and his PC is able to breathe a bit now

Slack on my computers with 4 workspaces is around 400-600mb of memory usage.

I haven't really run into any issues with slack. It works quickly enough for what I need it to do and it doesn't use up enough resources for me to care about.

I like Slack and use it heavily. I'm signed in to 22 Slack instances in my current instance on my 2017 MBP.

So I like Slack, the chat platform? I don’t. Do I like Slack, the Mac app? Honestly it’s fine. My problem isn’t with the app, it’s the amount of attention I have to give it. Making it native wouldn’t improve that.

When I open Slack it takes a few seconds for the messages to come up.

When I open Mimestream (a new native gmail app), I see my messages in an instant.

That’s enough for me to dislike Slack.

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