Considering the insane memory consumption of claude code running in my terminal, electron was never really the problem, bad software was the culprit all along.

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fasterik 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The culprit is using web technologies where they don't belong, which Electron is also guilty of. Claude Code is 400k lines of JavaScript for a TUI where a sane implementation in C would be two orders of magnitude less code.

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jorvi 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yup. VSCode is really fast and memory-frugal for an Electron application of that complexity.

Likewise, Gnome has proven that you can write entire UIs in Javascript and have them be quite performant.

Electron (well, Node is a big sub-culprit) and Javascript in general just make it really easy to create a slow, bloated application.

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onemoresoop 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can’t say that electron does not encourage bad software, quite the opposite

	▲	treyd 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's an example of bad code that further encourages more bad code.

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Redster 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Always has been.