To be fair there is quite a lot of space in between "supreme performance" and "supreme bloat". We can all accept some bloat because it makes life easier for developers/maintainers. But when you push the bloat border, suddenly users need 4 cores, 8GB of RAM, and several GB of disk space for a lagging block notes app.
Sure you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but if the book has poor multi-threading, bloated mark-up, and requires everyone you share it with to download another copy of chromium...
I really get sick of people shitting on Electron just because it's the hip thing to do or whatever.
Umbrella Note is a whopping 78mb versus Evernote at 129mb. I'm not sure "another copy of Chromium" is a big deal. I'm not sure what you're talking about in regards to the bloated markup. Are you referring to HTML and CSS? I'm also not really of the opinion that a simple note taking app needs to be multithreaded. This would increase complexity in any language.
My first thought when looking at this project wasn't "oh no Electron!" My first thought was "I could actually contribute to this project," because I, like many many others, use and understand what is likely the most prevalent programming language in the world.
> I really get sick of people shitting on Electron just because it's the hip thing to do or whatever.
This sounds very much like a comment I saw where a person said that they thought most atheists were only on board a bandwagon because it was hip. How terribly offensive.
Some people genuinely dislike certain projects and have no interest in being hip when they say so.
Electron has its place as a framework. Blindly disliking every single project that uses it is silly, and I really don't mind offending anyone who does so.
