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Don't get your hopes up. The industry is well underway in migrating everything possible away from native apps to Electron.

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People for some reason forget that for most election apps you can run it in a browser tab and avoid almost all of the overhead.

You can run slack, teams, outlook, Spotify, figma, and just about everything else in a browser tab; you get Linux support for free and you are only running one browser instance.

Doing that helps some, but it doesn’t help the fact that web engines and the balls of mud they’re so often tasked with running are quite heavy even with just one browser instance.

I shift a 1 GB electron app to a 900 MB browser tab (i don't know what it actually is, but the number of Tabs I have taking up 1 GB memory is shocking these days).

Trying to vibe as many of my own CLI toolings as possible....

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