I'm glad to see this at the top. I do wish though that more Electron threads on here and r/programming would talk about the actual developments happening instead of the constant memory usage complaints back and forth.
It's funny, I try Vim and I like it. HN convinces me to try Emacs and I like it. I'm not supposed to like Electron apps but I try VS Code on my 4+ year old chromebook with 2gb of ram and it runs just fine and I like it. Same goes with Slack. Seems pretty damn good to me. This all repeats itself when it comes to programming language debates too.
Is something wrong with me if I'm interested in vim, emacs, vs code, python, js, elm, go(!), haskell, rust, and racket? Am I just too inexperienced? Will I develop to have only one true religion or is there just something HN and r/programming brings out in people for these constant "one true correct way" debates.
No, this is good. Don't get caught up in the Vim-Emacs wars or any of the language wars - they are mostly a waste of time. Recognize that languages have "areas of expertise," but these often overlap.
I get mad about Electron because it seems that we should be able to solve the problem without running a web browser for every app. It's unfortunate that Electron is so much more appealing than more efficient alternatives. I wish we could end this trend of software efficiency declining to compensate for hardware improvements.
> I try VS Code on my 4+ year old chromebook with 2gb of ram and it runs just fine
It probably does, if it's the only thing you're running. I know developers think their app is the best thing in the world but they have to realise it's not the only thing running on my machine. RAM is a scarce resource on my dev box.
It's funny, I try Vim and I like it. HN convinces me to try Emacs and I like it. I'm not supposed to like Electron apps but I try VS Code on my 4+ year old chromebook with 2gb of ram and it runs just fine and I like it. Same goes with Slack. Seems pretty damn good to me. This all repeats itself when it comes to programming language debates too.
Is something wrong with me if I'm interested in vim, emacs, vs code, python, js, elm, go(!), haskell, rust, and racket? Am I just too inexperienced? Will I develop to have only one true religion or is there just something HN and r/programming brings out in people for these constant "one true correct way" debates.