alt Hacker NewsAre 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.
> everything else inside an Electron app can be identically fast to a native application.
HTML layout and rendering is almost never as fast as GUIs like Qt. Also Electron apps usually use JavaScript which is slower than "fast" languages like C++/Rust/Kotlin/etc.
The reason people use Electron is because it's easy, especially if you have to have a website anyway. Slack is a great example of this. They already have a full website so it's kind of silly to redo the whole thing...
Unless AI makes it easy. We'll see I guess.