I wish people would stop using Electron for everything. It's like running an instance of a bloated web browser every time I open an app. Running Slack and Spotify eats a ton of ram, a chat client and a music player. I'm resorting to just running these apps as pinned browser tabs.

Unpopular opinion but I like electron!

@linuxxx Slack shouldn't be eating over half a gig of ram.

@Hastouki It usually doesn't come above 100mb for me. Also, slack is not the only electron app!

@linuxxx That's my point, when it's not the only electron app and you run a few of them they quickly start eating through your ram.

Too bad it doesn't work out for you! I have had slack for desktop (linux) and it never went above 150mb. But I like electron nonetheless :)

@linuxxx My coworker just sent me a screenshot from his Arch box and it's similar numbers, not that I expect it to really be that different, it's the same on my Arch at home. Anyways, not trying to be a dick, just frustrated with just how much they cut into system memory. This is why I won't touch Atom or VSCode.

@Hastouki Oh I'm not trying to invalidate your frustrations! Get everything out man, this is devRant after all, getting to the level (as in upvotes, being known etc) I am at right now on here required quite some agressive rants :P. Nah I get what you mean but for Electron is ideal as it enables me to write desktop apps without having to know like three languages or something (and don't get me started on Java) :)

@linuxxx Sure! I do mostly native apps desktop, iOS and Android, with a lot of C++ work and shit like that makes me a little mental. I just feel like these companies can afford to build true lean desktop experiences, rather than just wrapping things up in a web engine and handing us memory hogs.

Here's java for you.

Spotify switched to Electron?. I thought they used Chrome Embedded Framework(CEF-still based on Chromium project)?

@bdhobare Whatever it is :) Embedded browser crap. Maybe I should have checked exactly if it is before ranting.

Oh slack on macOS is pure shit. My colleague has it on Ubunut with no issues.
Even postman on Linux is way smoother than on macOS
I always regret hitting Command +V in slack it freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez then remembers to show pasted content
And Ctrl + Z on postman is pure torture 🙄

@gitpush really? I never had any problems... Don't know about memory usage tho.

Can I use electron to build a Library Management System? I mean, is it a good choice?

@shellbug I think it's the mac I'm using at work, it has a 5400RPM HDD with only 8GB ram 😐

@Hastouki I am in 7 slack servers and it eats 2.7G of RAM

@DeadCode That's ridiculous

@DeadCode We've started running slack in pinned browser tabs. Not sure how this works with multiple servers though.