It’s now more clear than ever

Yes, electron-based stuff and the likes are a plague

agreed

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Don’t use them?

Hard to do when half the applications are built that way. Git GUIs, code/text editors, chat programs, even the next outlook is jumping on this stuff.

I get it that it’s faster to code like that and you basically get cross platform compatibility for free since you’re writing a website, but it’s a hog of resources that should have been stopped years ago.

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All those examples you listed have alternatives…

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