aka Chromium Embedded Framework revised

its for making nice sleek desktop GUI programs using the same programming frameworks used in making fancy web apps

Electron is literally just your program, but running inside a Chrome browser that can't go on websites.

It's ridiculously slow.

it _can_ be super slow, you have to be careful how you code the apps

and most people using it are probably noobs who have no idea how javascript actually performs under the hood

That'd be me 😛

atom is a bad example, the Slack desktop app used to be, and VSCode is a very good example

if you're still confused on what Electron is, if you hit CTRL+SHIFT+I in Discord, click the Console tab and type in `window.location.href = "google.com"` then your Discord will immediately transform into Google because the entire Discord app is a joke and only exists to do push to talk (notifications and whatnot could still be done in the web browser, they just don't want to enable it to force you to use this junk)

lmao they left in developer tools in the release? WHY

Wow...

oh, you'll also notice that CTRL+SHIFT+I in Discord brings up the same inspect element developer tools window as your web browser does

don't touch it though

Before I try this how do I undo it?

there's a close button in the top right, only click that

^

you don't want to mess with the developer console because you'll get HIV.js

kek

Got it. Just tried it. Looks interesting. No idea what any of it means. Left it the hell alone

I once saw a calculator, a fucking calculator, made in Electron- like, it had even less features than the calculator built into Windows, like why

lmao

amazing

why would anyone want a calculator that uses a literal gigabyte of RAM

<:sad:382980750347206666>

i can't post images, but if I could, I'd show you a screenshot of my task manager right now where Discord is using literally 1.3 GB of RAM

1.3 GB

for a chat client

like i said ... most people building these apps, have no idea about performance

calling it lightweight was an absolute joke and Discord are a bunch of pseudo-intellectual crooks, this is so sad, alexa can we all use qTox

around 500MB for me

which yeah, is insane

Even 500MB is a lot, considering how old some peoples' machines are.

its a trade off

209.2MB for me

for reference, Teamspeak only uses around 25 MB for me

my machine has 16GB i dont care about RAM, but if it starts hogging CPU

OH YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD DISCORD'S SCREENSHARE IS FOR YOUR CPU

they're doing VIDEO ENCODING and DECODING on the CPU

what the ACTUAL FUCK

like the Slack client used to open a window/thread (cant remember the details) for EVERY org you were in

HAHA 100% CPU USAGE HERE WE COME