Slack is far, far, from a simple text chat, regardless of what you (or I) think it should be. I hadn’t checked its size. On my system it’s about 200MB+another 200MB per workspace. Yeah, that’s outrageous. But Firefox is using about 10GB, so I’m not exactly convinced that a web app is going to have a significantly smaller footprint than Electron.
The fact that Slack is such a high-quality app is in my mind a huge vote in favour of Electron (as is Discord) ../Dave On Oct 11, 2018, 10:53 AM -0400, Jamon Camisso via talk <[email protected]>, wrote: > On 11/10/18 10:37, David Mason via talk wrote: > > Electron is probably the easiest way to move a web app to an > > application. See: > > https://electronjs.org/ > > > > It uses html, javascript, css and should be able to connect to your > > postgresql database. > > slack, what should be a simple text chat built on electron is taking > 873044 kb RSS memory on my desktop. > > electron should be the last resort - it is probably the worst thing you > could do for your users if you care about resource constraints. > > I would question the merit of even moving from a web application. I am > on 400/100kbit DSL in the country, and I don't have any issues with even > large react or ember based web apps. > > Cheers, Jamon > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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