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encom on Oct 4, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe

I'm not a dev (by profession). I don't care about the you-ecks of developers. Electron creates objectively terrible software by every metric that matters for the end user.

>sophisticated

You confuse complexity for sophistication.

m-schuetz on Oct 4, 2025 [–]

Objectively wrong. Bad programmers create terrible software. Electron was used for some fantastic software like vscode.

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