Enjoyable little irony personally for me, as when I asked an LLM to churn out a readme for my fin project ( posted on lemmy here ), it proposed one of fin's advantages that could push fin into the notable category: "Performance niche - might be faster than Electron-based editors for simple tasks". Maybe I should change that to "save a fortune on RAM compared to Electron-based editors".

[–] zorro@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

rust_analyzer takes 16GB of ram though so good luck actually working on a rust project

(Semi kidding, the project I work on is very big)

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Bunch of people complaining about electron in this thread but I'm happy it exists.

Without electron you would get way fewer Linux apps and often no GUI to go with them.

The RAM usage is high sometimes but I have 128gb and unused RAM is wasted RAM. I don't care how much something is using until it starts to swap or gets oom.

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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip -4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Electron apps existed and were a standard years before this current memory shortage. There is no connection there.

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