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Cross platform design philosophy
1P_Ben @MrRooni roustem
I understand a part for you deciding to go for Electron on the front end was so that the Apps could all look and feel as close as possible to each other across the various...
Several users have posted examples of 1PW8 using well in excess of 250MB. I hope AgileBits can get that cleaned up, but based on the track records of other apps that made the switch to Electron I’m not optimistic. For those other apps, usage dropped by 10-15% once all the optimizations had been implemented, and no further attempts at reducing consumption were made by the developers.
And of course 1PW8 is going to run fine on its own, where the real issue comes in is when several things are running… especially when many of things are also electron (hard to avoid these days). All it takes is a typical number of browser tabs and 2-3 electron/electron-like apps (slack, spotify, 1PW, evernote for example seems like a plausible combination) and the machine is going to have to start hitting the pagefile (even with memory compression) and performance will take a very noticeable hit.
I don’t intend to continue arguing, but resource consumption is a huge problem that’s going mostly unaddressed by the biggest names in software.
