I often see people talking about the fact that they like a certain open-source application, but 'it's a shame it's on Electron'; what does this mean? Is it a privacy thing or a resource thing?

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[–] Voxelous@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Here are some flaws with Electron:

High RAM and CPU consumption since it's based on Chromium
Electron apps take too much space as they're bundled with NodeJS and Chromium runtine
Electron apps tend to be slow
Terrible sucurity

[–] cooper@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Ahhh, I see; so, essentially, a combination of both resources and privacy.

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