alt Hacker NewsYeah.... maybe. I think AI is still too prone to go down rabbit holes and not understand the whole picture well enough to come up with good optimisations. It's probably good at micro-optimisation, e.g. pre-allocating arrays. But is it going to realise that you don't need that array in the first place? I dunno.
On the other hand it does mean there's no excuse for writing your program using Python or Electron or whatever, which will have a big effect on performance.
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Are you suggesting Electron is slow? What evidence do you have? There may be a +200ms start up time compared to a native application; is that so bad?
Besides a bootup that is no longer than your browser's, everything else inside an Electron app can be identically fast to a native application.
Please be a better filter - do not spread bad memes.
The reason for using Electron is to write once and run everywhere right?
I get that LLMs would make it faster to write distinct copies for different operating systems and maintain them both but thats still more costly than a single system.
Sorry if I’m misunderstanding the goal of Electron but it still seems cheaper and easier (although admittedly worse than multiple native apps)