I often see people talking about the fact that they like a certain open-source application, but ‘it’s a shame it’s on Electron’; what does this mean? Is it a privacy thing or a resource thing?

  • Voxl
    20•2 years ago

    Here are some flaws with Electron:

    • High RAM and CPU consumption since it’s based on Chromium
    • Electron apps take too much space as they’re bundled with NodeJS and Chromium runtine
    • Electron apps tend to be slow
    • Terrible sucurity
    • @jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml
      6•2 years ago

      An Electron app has full access to your filesystem and to other system resources, the same as any other desktop app

      Is there a specific reason or example for why we say it has terrible security here?

      Chromium has an incredibly advanced and optimised graphics pipeline and the code that is running in the “web” part of an Electron app benefits from Chromium’s sandbox