<story><title>Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability</title><url>https://marktext.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I think that this argument is, frankly, over. Electron is &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; way to build cross-platform apps that don&amp;#x27;t merit separate UI code for each platform.&lt;p&gt;Electron wins because Electron apps are able to deliver consistently decent UX, something that never happened with Swing or GTK+ or WxWidgets or whatever.&lt;p&gt;Sure, it eats RAM. It turns out that I care about that so much less than I thought I would. I&amp;#x27;m rarely using 100% of my system&amp;#x27;s RAM these days, so I&amp;#x27;m willing to burn a couple hundred MB on widgets continuing to be sensibly drawn and laid out when I resize the window.</text></item><item><author>stanski</author><text>Can anything running on Electron be classified as simple? Just saying. (yes, I am &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; guy in this case)&lt;p&gt;I like the idea behind it though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swebs</author><text>&amp;gt;Sure, it eats RAM. It turns out that I care about that so much less than I thought I would.&lt;p&gt;It sure is nice having a powerful developer machine with 16 or 32 gb of RAM. Just remember there are a lot of people out there running on 4gb laptops or even less. These days, the OS, web browser, and Slack alone are already enough to max it out and start swapping.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability</title><url>https://marktext.app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mumblemumble</author><text>I think that this argument is, frankly, over. Electron is &lt;i&gt;the&lt;/i&gt; way to build cross-platform apps that don&amp;#x27;t merit separate UI code for each platform.&lt;p&gt;Electron wins because Electron apps are able to deliver consistently decent UX, something that never happened with Swing or GTK+ or WxWidgets or whatever.&lt;p&gt;Sure, it eats RAM. It turns out that I care about that so much less than I thought I would. I&amp;#x27;m rarely using 100% of my system&amp;#x27;s RAM these days, so I&amp;#x27;m willing to burn a couple hundred MB on widgets continuing to be sensibly drawn and laid out when I resize the window.</text></item><item><author>stanski</author><text>Can anything running on Electron be classified as simple? Just saying. (yes, I am &lt;i&gt;that&lt;/i&gt; guy in this case)&lt;p&gt;I like the idea behind it though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ComputerGuru</author><text>Text editors don’t need all the widgets and controls. They basically need a context menu (and Electron’s menus are horrible as they provide none of the native OS accelerators and integrations), a open&amp;#x2F;save dialog (pretty please don’t use a custom UI here!), and maybe a menu&amp;#x2F;toolbar. The editor itself is custom code (whether html&amp;#x2F;css&amp;#x2F;js or native), and that’s where the performance benefits of native code shine best anyway.</text></comment>