It's like the other comments are living in a parallel universe.
What part of the article did they actually read? Isn't the Slack/Electron resource utilisation screenshot enough to prove an important point?
No, Electron-based applications are not better than "they used to be."
We all fucking know why Electron got all of these companies interested in making applications with it: cheap, probably imported labour to build applications. That's it. And no, it is not better "DX" either. NPM and the NodeJS ecosystem in general are toxic and unsustainable for larger applications.
Isn't the Slack/Electron resource utilisation screenshot enough to prove an important point?
For most people: no.
They work around it. They buy new hardware and they're not sure why.
There's massive business in selling people new computers (I'm
including smartphones here).
For most in the tech industry: no.
Their job depends on them not understanding and/or not caring about
this stuff. If they did care and acted on it, they risk losing a job
to the next person who is happy to go "yes, sir", write more shit,
and add it to the pile.
It's like the other comments are living in a parallel universe.
What part of the article did they actually read? Isn't the Slack/Electron resource utilisation screenshot enough to prove an important point?
No, Electron-based applications are not better than "they used to be."
We all fucking know why Electron got all of these companies interested in making applications with it: cheap, probably imported labour to build applications. That's it. And no, it is not better "DX" either. NPM and the NodeJS ecosystem in general are toxic and unsustainable for larger applications.
For most people: no.
They work around it. They buy new hardware and they're not sure why. There's massive business in selling people new computers (I'm including smartphones here).
For most in the tech industry: no.
Their job depends on them not understanding and/or not caring about this stuff. If they did care and acted on it, they risk losing a job to the next person who is happy to go "yes, sir", write more shit, and add it to the pile.