This is such a reddit take. Yeah electron takes a lot of resources, but there’s also a lot of software that never would’ve been made in the first place if we didn’t have it. It’s not as simple at pointing to (comparatively) inefficient software and saying that’s bad. Software is ubiquitous now and a big part of the reason for that is that frameworks and abstractions made software much easier to create.

I say this as someone who spent all of yesterday optimizing out a function call to save 36 nanoseconds: stop whining about electron.

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AlecSchueler 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> This is such a reddit take

You might consider that your comment would have been just as strong without the opening put-down.

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Barbing 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I found it interesting commentary… must’ve been because I wasn’t its target!

Maybe “common myth I’ve noticed spread on reddit” would work.

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aspenmayer 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s not really helpful in furthering good discussion, though, and it assumes too much.

To compare a reply to being akin to/belonging on Reddit is to say that it is low-effort or not intellectually rigorous, but this critique is self-defeating because it is itself low-effort and is usually not substantiated or justified, so it just rubs people on HN the wrong way.

This is especially true when it nearly bumps up against the part of the HN guidelines which admonish us to not compare HN itself to Reddit.

When saying an individual comment belongs on Reddit or is like those on Reddit, that is against the guidelines’ spirit in the small scale the same way as saying HN proper is becoming like Reddit is against the guidelines by the book in the large scale, so I don’t really think the comparison is helpful or defensible. It adds little to nothing to the discussion it accompanies, but rather undercuts it. When stated absent any other discussion, it’s nearly impossible to read it as anything but a bad faith swipe and/or flamebait.

	▲	Barbing an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Great points, thank you!

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frollogaston 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm fine with Electron, not so fine with basic websites being so bloated now that even a modern computer lags on them. Those were achievable in the past.