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Claude Cowork is unusably slow on my M1 MacBook Pro. I wonder if Codex is any better; a quick search indicates that it is also an electron app

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At least when I tried it last, Claude Cowork tried to spin up an entire virtual machine to sandbox itself properly - and not only is that sandboxing slow to start up, it also makes it difficult to actually interact freely across your filesystem. (Perhaps a feature, not a bug.)

Claude Code, on the other hand, has no such issues, if you've done some setup to allow all commands by default (perhaps then setting "ask" for rm, etc.).

Codex is a rust TUI app, and it's available as open source. It has nothing to do with Electron.

Codex is both a macOS app and a CLI/TUI app.

Their naming is not very clear. The codex desktop app is somewhat of a frontend for the codex cli.

By the look and feel of it I would guess it is written with Electron.

Codex CLI is a TUI app, but Codex App is an actual desktop GUI app. If you actually look at the TFA, you'll see that all of the videos are of the desktop app.

Yes! and if you install Computer Use from the Codex App you can also use it from the Codex CLI

the codex desktop app is electron, as is claudes

> Codex is a rust TUI app, and it's available as open source. It has nothing to do with Electron.

I just updated Codex and looked inside the macOS app package. It is most definitely still an Electron app.

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