Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app
weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months agoPeople being triggered by the sheer existence of Electron – it just HAS to be “shitty”, even if it works perfectly fine.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 months ago
I can appreciate the functionality, but cannot really call an application “good” if it eats up more than half a gigabyte of RAM while being something as simple as a messenger.
balder1991@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Also there are better solutions if you want to have your UI in HTML nowadays. You don’t need to embed a whole web browser in each app.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Which ones, for example?
balder1991@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Something like tauri does, by using the OS web engine, so the apps can be a few KB (depending on the code of course).