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?

  • AgreeableLandscape☭
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    112 years ago

    I’d be less hateful of Electron if it simply allowed me to use Mozilla Gecko instead of Chromium as the rendering engine.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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      22 years ago

      Pluggable engines would be nice, but I feel like it’s less of a concern for stuff like Electron where you’re making apps with it. I’d be more interested in addressing memory usage and cutting out stuff that’s not really needed for apps that’s part of the browser engine. Ideally, it should be modular so that you can include just the stuff your app uses to keep it lean. Perhaps using an approach similar to GraalVM could be taken as well to reduce resource usage.