I can't afford for them to be Electron based on my 128 GB SSD. The thing is, I have dozens or hundreds of tiny little utilities like this installed that make one-off tasks that I do once a month or so much easier. After installation it takes 14 MB on my Linux distribution (it's a 4 MB download). Elsewhere in this thread I mentioned that I use vidcutter, a free and open source tool that does the same basic task.

I'm a person who occasionally edits videos. I get this perspective from the developer point of view, but I'm not a video editor. Storage is cheap, and what is 500mb when working with 4K video anyways, so optimising for size is mostly a waste of time > It lets you easily build a cross-OS app on a super optimised, stable and secure platform. Storage is cheap, and what is 500mb when working with 4K video anyways, so optimising for size is mostly a waste of time and doesn't really benefit 99% of users. I think if you compare it to most other lossy video editors, you'll find that the CPU usage is much lower (especially per minute of produced video!), and the memory footprint is probably lower than many other popular video editors. CI, automatic building and releasing to all different kinds of channels is a breeze due to tools like `electron-builder`. I don't think I ever had the LosslessCut app actually crash on me. The web has all the big tech pushing new features and improvements all the time and it maintains really good backwards compatibility. It gives you all the features of the web, and it 'just works' on almost any popular OS.

It lets you easily build a cross-OS app on a super optimised, stable and secure platform that's being battle tested by billions of people around the world every day (Chromium). Somewhat unpopular opinion, but here goes: Developing an app using Electron gives such tremendous benefits that it far outweighs any downsides. I think the most common criticism is that the app is large and uses a lot of memory (compared to Notepad?:P) due to it being Electron based. I just discovered this post, and I'm really happy to see a lot of satisfied long time users as well as excited new users who recently discovered this.

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