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4 years agoSuper Contributor
Electron
This discussion was created from comments split from: 1PW8 for macOS.
Former Member
4 years agoAs a software developer that uses a bunch of (electron) apps in parallel for day-to-day work, I'm quite unhappy with the decision that 1Password 8 goes on that path with the electron as well. Most of the comments here are oriented to the 1Password as a single piece of software. To me, it looks like everyone forgets that 1Password should be a side app, that quietly works in the background and not something eating nearly double RAM and GPU.
Try to look at this in a way that for daily work most of us have to use Slack, Figma, VSCode, ... (all electron-based apps). Little by little I'm starting to experience fan speed up, mac getting hotter and sometimes everything slows down. It's not about "that one" app, but about adding the 1Password to the pile.
As I'm quite sure that there is no time/money to entirely rewrite everything back again to work natively, I'm afraid that I'll have to migrate my family plan to something else...just still not sure to what as the main reason for choosing the 1Password was the native macOS app.
Keep in mind that there are still some users that are keeping an eye on native vs non-native apps and that want to run as many native apps as possible to keep the overall machine fluid and happy :)