The word "developer" is doing a lot of work there spec-wise.

The extent to which electron apps run well depends on how many you're running and how much ram you had to spare.

When I complain about electron it has nothing to do with ideology, it's because I do run out of memory, and then I look at my process lists and see these apps using 10x as much as native equivalents.

And the worst part of wasting memory is that it hasn't changed much in price for quite a while. Current model memory has regularly been available for less than $4/GB since 2012, and as of a couple months ago you could get it for $2.50/GB. So even a 50% boost in use wipes out the savings since then. And sure the newer RAM is a lot faster, but that doesn't help me run multiple programs at the same time.

> The word "developer" is doing a lot of work there spec-wise.

Visual Studio Code is a developer tool, so there’s no reason to complain about that.

I run multiple Electron apps at a time even on low spec machines and it’s fine. The amount of hypothetical complaining going on about this topic is getting silly.

You know these apps don’t literally need to have everything resident in RAM all the time, right?

I regularly run 6+ electron apps on a M2 Air and notice no slowdown

2x as many chrome instances, no issues