• Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Electron apps created with React can definitely push the boundaries of what ‘acceptable’ memory usage is.

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      1 year ago

      Electron apps created with React can definitely push the boundaries of what ‘acceptable’ memory usage is.

      I have a pet theory that webview-based apps are popular only because currently there is absolutely no usable multiplatform desktop GUI framework. Therefore, developers have to resort to the one thing that works: load a webpage in a web browser.

      Even React Native feels like a kludge in a way it converts React components to UI components.