RAM and GPU are cheap. Most users aren't going to notice. Meanwhile by choosing Electron, the developers were able to roll out the app on Windows, Mac, and Linux at nearly zero marginal cost per additional platform.
And other lies you can tell yourself to sleep at night.
Most people notice. Very few have the capacity, power (or realise) to complain about it. They accept what they’ve been given, despite how awful it is, because they have basically no other option.
A concrete example: my previous work had to use bitbucket pipelines for our docker builds. My current work uses GitHub actions. GH has my container half-built before I can even click through to the page. Bitbucket took a good minute to start. My complaints about bitbucket fell on deaf ears in the business, and no amount of leaving feedback for Atlassian to “please make builds faster” ever made the slightest amount of difference. Every time MS teams comes up that’s met with complaints about performance (among other things) so people definitely notice that. VS Code gets celebrated for “actually having decent performance”, so the bar is so low that even moderate performance apps receive high praise.
Users definitely notice performance, whether the PM/business cares is a different matter, but we should stop deceiving ourselves by saying it’s alright because “users won’t notice or care”.
Yup.. and if facebook didn't invest in a native mobile app, they'd been eliminated 10 years ago.
Performance is a feature. Or does anyone here enjoy using an old tomtom gps where every tap on the screen takes 2 seconds? If so, please donate your beefy laptops to charity.
