I find I have to kinda budget how many electron apps I keep around, to keep things running smoothly. And that's assuming they're all halfway, sorta, well-written. That goes double for anything I might want to leave open, or open frequently. It also applies to "web app" tabs in my browser (even Gmail eats shitloads of memory and spikes CPU usage all the time for mysterious reasons, let alone things like Google Docs, and a bunch of SaaS dashboards are as bad or worse).
If an app is Electron, it gets an extra and fairly rigorous level of "do I need it? What are the alternatives?" treatment, for this reason. Native, or even QT, doesn't get that kind of in-advance scrutiny, since only rarely do they cause any problems, even if I forget about them and leave them on in the background for months.
If an app is Electron, it gets an extra and fairly rigorous level of "do I need it? What are the alternatives?" treatment, for this reason. Native, or even QT, doesn't get that kind of in-advance scrutiny, since only rarely do they cause any problems, even if I forget about them and leave them on in the background for months.