It provides reasonable explanations for the question that was originally asked. Efficiency is being traded for portability. We may not like that but plenty of people are using app built an electron everyday and a lot of those people aren't even paying attention to how much RAM it uses.
Users do notice things like "my computer heats up and the fans are loud when I use this app" and "my computer slows down if I open this app with other apps already open".
Additionally, there’s a point where the user’s desired use case is just isn’t reasonable. 4gb RAM is very little to work with, particularly in a world where 8gb is the norm.
You do realise that sone people live in poorer countries and can't afford newest and latest?
Yeah, fuck poor people! It's their fault that they can't afford to buy a new expensive computer every year!
I’d argue that’s exactly what a hacker is. You’re doing something that works and serves a purpose, even though it might not be pretty.
The person who made and first used Electron is a hacker. Everyone now is merely taking the path of least resistance, which is not what a hacker is.
Taking the path of least resistance is very much in the hacker spirit. "I just hacked it together with what I had." Reinventing the wheel, that's for entrepreneurs.
It's too late. The dilution of the hacker community has crossed a critical threshold.
why?
Wow I didn’t mean for that to be a controversial response. My apologies. The parent comment referred to Electron being “absolutely unbeatable”. That is my belief of not being in the spirit of a hacker or have the willingness to disrupt the status quo. We have accepted Electron’s glaring shortcomings as a whole and consistently complain about it. There are projects out there that try to satisfy these points in each of them has particular trade offs. I hope to see these contenders rise. One thing I do know from my time in tech is not to get too complacent with the single tech who monopolies a problem space. Innovations will prevail.