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if it wasn't an electron app, they would not have the ease with which they could integrate libraries such as that mermaid diagramming tool.

Electron is fine tbh, even if it eats memory and harddisk space. Provided the app is written efficiently, and doesn't stutter or lag.

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I use VS Code because it's a great editor... but it eats a few hundred MiB of RAM and it doesn't start instantly... On a machine with 32 GiB or RAM, 8 CPU cores and a fast NVMe drive. The main window is a glorified notepad. How will it fare on, say, an SBC?

Electron might have certain advantages compared to alternatives, but this is more of a result of decades of a crappy attitude towards software development. We should not be content with something like this.

Is there an alternative to Electron that allows a program to be compiled for multiple OSes without having to maintain separate codebases for each?

Ironically, .Net has several.

Tauri seems to address the issues with Electron and works cross platform. It’s still early though and doesn’t have feature parity with Electron yet.

Java has offered this for a very long time. (Swing, SWT, Java FX)

https://www.avaloniaui.net/ and http://platform.uno/

who cares?

the difference between 50ms and 5ms is barely pereceptible.

vscode isn't slow. it's fast. it could be faster, but making it faster would be, ironically, a waste of time.

There's also Tauri which https://dioxuslabs.com/ uses.

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