We live in a time of crisis. RAM and CPU prices are skyrocketing because of AIBro absurdity.
Existing computers will need to be useful for much longer.
So I beg you.
Stop using Electron.
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@aurynn the sad part is that electron is the only cross-platform UI framework most people use with baseline levels of accessibility
@simulo @freya @aurynn Compared to Electron, it's really lightweight – eg. NextCloud desktop client uses around 160 MB private bytes, VirtualBox 230 MB (without any VMs running), Transmission-Qt 60 MB, WireShark 200 MB.
Compare these to Discord, which has two 600 MB processes, one 135 MB and 3 at 10-20 MB.
@jernej__s @simulo @freya @aurynn
Qt apps on Mac stand out because they don’t use the native view classes but they try to mimic the style. Everything looks almost right but behaves subtly differently. It took them over a decade to get the keyboard navigation shortcuts in text fields to behave the same was as every other text field on the system.
@david_chisnall @simulo @freya @aurynn Qt apps looking just different enough to be noticeable on Windows also used to be a problem back when Windows still had unified look.
While I agree - lunch rules apply. If you want a different course of action, it really helps to suggest one. "Do not do X" without an alternative proposal isn't a message that gets heeded.
So - what's the viable alternative? "Rewrite your code in another language and lrn2gui" is probably not viable either. Genuinely interested in if anyone is aware of an objectively superior alternative.
@tbortels Qt exists and always has.
@janriemer @aurynn @tbortels Tauri is just electron for rust
