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System
Super Contributor
4 years ago

Electron

This discussion was created from comments split from: 1PW8 for macOS.
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Former Member
4 years ago

Ugh, I admit I haven't tried the Mac version yet, but it's so depressing to hear a pretty Mac-focused company in the past is giving up and moving to Electron. Usually Electron means:

  • Weird HTML menus that can't draw outside if a window.
  • Custom widgets that don't match the OS (will buttons and menus match the system theme colors?), and get out of sync after OS upgrades.
  • Almost always modal dialogs (especially preferences).
  • Poor scrolling performance in long lists.
  • Crappy integration with utility apps like Keyboard Maestro (will it be able to find HTML "buttons"?).
  • Often need to be restarted to fix performance issues (VS Code is powerful, but can't make it through a day on hardware that's a few years old--and it's by far the best Electron app I've seen).

Not looking forward to any of that.