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There's hate directed at performance, but Electron apps are just profoundly buggy.

For example in Slack:

1. Non-functional items are routinely offered in the main menu and context menu.

2. The Undo and Redo menu items often just don't work. These do different things than the command key equivalents which should never happen.

3. It is easy to get into a state with multiple blinking insertion points.

4. The inactive appearance is identical to the active appearance.

etc etc.



None of these are innate to Electron. It's kinda like saying "Windows apps are just profoundly buggy", or "Telephone calls are just profoundly boring".


That’s more of a fault on behalf of the devs though. You can pick any platform and you’ll find devs who’ll have something to complain about.




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