<story><title>I&apos;ve spent the last two years building a new email client</title><url>https://ivelope.com/invite/InviteHNv0914</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomc1985</author><text>My compute resources are not an all-you-can-eat buffet. I&amp;#x27;m sick of inconsiderate developers writing software in wasteful frameworks that waste my electricity and time.&lt;p&gt;You can make pretty x-platform apps in JavaFX, QT Quick, GTK, hell even Lazarus, and they don&amp;#x27;t eat CPU and memory like Electron does.&lt;p&gt;It is a shame that nearly every app released in the latter half of this decade is just wasteful Electron garbage. Don&amp;#x27;t forget your 300+mb needs to sit along side Slack&amp;#x27;s 300mb, Discord&amp;#x27;s 300mb, and so on... fuck even my Crashplan Backup client eats up three processes and another 300mb. It&amp;#x27;s inconsiderate as hell.</text></item><item><author>dhruvb14</author><text>I find it crazy that everyone is harping on Electron instead of the cool features that this clearly has that most clients do not. Demo looked pretty polished dude. Don&amp;#x27;t let the typical HN crowd rain on your parade. The fact that you posted an actual product out to the public is more than most can say.&lt;p&gt;Also: If you can&amp;#x27;t spare Max 300MB ram and you are complaining on HN wtf computer do you use?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>laumars</author><text>I would normally agree with you but I can actually see the point of Electron for email because you&amp;#x27;d need a HTML renderer anyway to display emails (assuming you want the ability to view HTML emails, if not then you&amp;#x27;re better off with a console client and save yourself even more RAM :p)&lt;p&gt;Plus Gmail and a few others big names in webmail require a HTTP client for authentication if you want to use their proprietary sync (granted there&amp;#x27;s also POP3 and IMAP. But while IMAP is good in a number of ways it&amp;#x27;s still far from perfect).</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;ve spent the last two years building a new email client</title><url>https://ivelope.com/invite/InviteHNv0914</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tomc1985</author><text>My compute resources are not an all-you-can-eat buffet. I&amp;#x27;m sick of inconsiderate developers writing software in wasteful frameworks that waste my electricity and time.&lt;p&gt;You can make pretty x-platform apps in JavaFX, QT Quick, GTK, hell even Lazarus, and they don&amp;#x27;t eat CPU and memory like Electron does.&lt;p&gt;It is a shame that nearly every app released in the latter half of this decade is just wasteful Electron garbage. Don&amp;#x27;t forget your 300+mb needs to sit along side Slack&amp;#x27;s 300mb, Discord&amp;#x27;s 300mb, and so on... fuck even my Crashplan Backup client eats up three processes and another 300mb. It&amp;#x27;s inconsiderate as hell.</text></item><item><author>dhruvb14</author><text>I find it crazy that everyone is harping on Electron instead of the cool features that this clearly has that most clients do not. Demo looked pretty polished dude. Don&amp;#x27;t let the typical HN crowd rain on your parade. The fact that you posted an actual product out to the public is more than most can say.&lt;p&gt;Also: If you can&amp;#x27;t spare Max 300MB ram and you are complaining on HN wtf computer do you use?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lilyball</author><text>300mb? You&amp;#x27;re lucky. Slack is taking up 763mb for me right now, and it&amp;#x27;s not uncommon to see it cross the 1GB threshold.</text></comment>