I always care about how much memory I end up using.
Problem is, most places won't pay for caring about that. Those that would, are doing so because they are using the product on their own systems instead of some customer's systems.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think we will first see a batch of alternative apps, which either will get shut down by manufacturers etc., or get tolerated as an alternative.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not sure I know many Electron apps that are worth running.
There is WhatsApp, but I just run the browser version. For Matrix, there's NeoChat, which uses QML and is definitely better than Electron.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think spotify / discord / vscode (and derivatives) / slack are probably the most installed electron apps.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=&SB=v&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go

A lot of pretty popular packages in those lists are electron apps, unfortunately

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

android-studio : I guess that explains why it ran so badly back when I had to use it for work.
jdk wouldn't be an Electron app, right?

discord is the only 1 of those that I used in any meaningful sense before and I already stopped using it for reasons other than Electron. So, I guess it's just a personal thing that I don't tend to require stuff that is made in Electron.

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe Android Studio is built on top of IntelliJ IDE which uses Java, so no Electron. That being said, Java applications are generally RAM heavy as well and Android Studio was always a pig on resources.

Visual Studio Code (not Visual Studio!) is Electron based but I've always had good performance with it.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Visual Studio Code

Yeah, that's one that I can't talk badly about.
While I have used MS Visual Studio and know how slow it was, I tried VS Codium once or twice and it worked pretty smoothly. Someone probably put quite a bit of effort into making it so.

Apart from Android Studio, which ended up not even starting up properly on the work computer, Gradle itself also takes quite a bit of time and resources. I was using the NDK with a C++ project and it took way longer to setup than any BSP, despite only being able to compile for a single version of Android.