[cdmoyer]

Honestly, this site is the only place I really hear about the supposed horror of electron. The resource issue doesn't seem to effect me or people in the 7 slacks I'm in all day.

My 6 year old MacBook runs slack, Xcode, android studio, safari, chrome, messages, vs code, vim, iterm2, preview, battle.net and hearthstone all the time without issue, really.

I think for the average user, they'd rather have more features across platforms more quickly than a smaller resident memory footprint and install size.

[wutbrodo]

For a counter-anecdote, I've seen the Slack app freeze up colleagues' workstations many times, and these are monster machines designed to run an autonomous vehicle stack on raw sensor data.