A bit different take is DiffusionBee, if you're curious to try it out in a GUI form.
it's correct enough that if you know your way around a CLI, git, and package management you can figure it out
also wonder if anyone did a blogpost yet
I can build an Electron app in under a day with a pretty UI. It would take me several months to get anything sensible that is OS native. And I'm not going to sit down and learn the alternative.
So please just say "thank you" to the developers that are sharing free things with you.
I assume the developer went for electron due to familiarity, but it would be a pretty good exercise for someone to port it to SwiftUI and native Swift for the front end.
I would do it myself but sadly am bound by other clauses.
It's astonishing how ungrateful people are. Even writing documentation for the software is quite a time-consuming action - writing the software itself is much more time-consuming.
So you are looking at some free software, that gives you the ability to play with StableDiffusion in 2 clicks, has a wide range of features and settings, surely required a ton of time to implement, and you arrogantly saying “pff, an Electron app...”
I wasn’t saying that the author of DiffusionBee should make a SwiftUI application. In fact I said the opposite in that I agree that the person who expected a native app is entitled.
I was however refuting the person I was responding to who said making a native app is a huge undertaking, because learning SwiftUI is fairly quick. That’s not to say that the maintainer should learn it but just that it’s fairly quick to learn should someone else want to.
I was also saying that someone (maybe someone other than the maintainer of DiffusionBee) could contribute a SwiftUI front end.
Finally I was saying I would gladly contribute it myself if I could (but unfortunately have other reasons why I can’t)
anyway hopefully that clears things up, and that hostility from your post is unwarranted.
Don't be toxic to don’t get that hostility.
If anything you’re the one being toxic because you’re unable to have a reasonable conversation about a misunderstanding, and are instead trying to put words in my virtual mouth to conform to your outrage.
Worst of all is the shamelessness, though. Don't Electron developers feel ashamed when they ship their products? Or have their brains been so muddled by this "JavaScript everywhere" mentality that they don't realize it's bad? Will future generations even know what a native application is anymore?
This program suggests quitting other applications while it runs. Maybe that wouldn't be so necessary if it wasn't using a framework which needs like 2GB of memory before it can draw a window.
I note that my OP hasn't been downvoted into oblivion as most of my critical HN posts are. I think there's at least a significant silent minority who agree with me on this one.
Just because the app is written using a chromium framework does not necessarily mean that it's written poorly, VS code is a great example of a fast performance application written in electron.
I don't know where you're getting 2 GB of required memory but if you spin up an electron app it's rare that it requires more than 100 if it's not doing anything.
If you knew anything about these types of stable diffusion interfaces you know that they basically have to load the entire model into memory so that's likely where the multiple gigabytes is coming from.
A lot of us got into development work because we want to create new things, you sound more like the person who spends 99% of their time endlessly optimizing the game engine without actually remembering to build a compelling game experience.
You're getting downvoted because your arrogant tone makes you sound like an insufferable bore.