**Lili** @Pasty@niu.moe · Feb 06, 2018, 15:42

**Lili** @Pasty@niu.moe · Feb 06, 2018, 15:42

Lili @Pasty@niu.moe

why should I upgrade my RAM can't people stop building electron apps instead

**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 09:23

**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 09:23

@Pasty no https://node-os.com/

**Damian Heaton** @lyrenhex@niu.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 09:27

**Damian Heaton** @lyrenhex@niu.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 09:27

@quad @Pasty I don't mind electron, but an OS built on Node? No thanks. Please no. Stop.

**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 09:29

**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 09:29

@lyrenhex @Pasty Electron is nice for small projects that just need to work fast and you use once in a while. Then the inefficient use of resources doesn't matter as much.

I'm overly annoyed at things that intend to be open all the time using it though. Like Slack and Discord

**pasqui023** @pasqui023 · 2018-02-16T10:56:52Z

pasqui023 @pasqui023

@quad @lyrenhex @Pasty
Visual Studio Code consistently consumes ~38mb so it's perfectly possible to create lightweight Electron apps

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**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 11:07

**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 11:07

@pasqui023 @lyrenhex @Pasty Sure you're not just looking at the main process. This is what I get with zero files open

https://masto.quad.moe/media/MHAam2ZTZpUQ5QOPPow https://masto.quad.moe/media/e0ULXROBEhwP0S-NPsk

**pasqui023** @pasqui023 · Feb 16, 2018, 11:11

**pasqui023** @pasqui023 · Feb 16, 2018, 11:11

@quad @lyrenhex @Pasty
Okcheckedagain and it is around 300Mb

But then again I had +130 extensions installed,and sure is mote light than Eclipse for around the same funcionality

**Damian Heaton** @lyrenhex@niu.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 11:13

**Damian Heaton** @lyrenhex@niu.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 11:13

@pasqui023 @quad @Pasty Eclipse is a full IDE for Java though, VSCode is a *text editor*. A fancy one, true, but it still seems somewhat... Bloated.

**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 11:14

**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 11:14

@lyrenhex @pasqui023 @Pasty Yeah you don't compare text editors to IDEs. The only remaining decent text editor I know of that's not Electron would probably be Sublime

**pasqui023** @pasqui023 · Feb 16, 2018, 11:14

**pasqui023** @pasqui023 · Feb 16, 2018, 11:14

@lyrenhex @quad @Pasty
A text editor that can fully replace Eclipse
From that point of view is light

**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 11:16

**Quad** @quad@masto.quad.moe · Feb 16, 2018, 11:16

@pasqui023 @lyrenhex @Pasty
1. I doubt it actually fully replaces Eclipse. You've probably only enabled the extensions you need, not everything Eclipse does
2. Eclipse is also known for being just as bloated as most IDEs often are. Though that's generally due to them just cramming in way too many features and having giant codebases. Not because of their framework like Electron text editors