It's not good, but it's not the worst. Of course i prefer applications which feel instantaneous, but these are hard to come by nowadays. I don't have strong opinions for 140Hz refresh rate, because i don't think i ever had monitors with more than 60Hz.
Many modern JS/Electron apps are in fact network bound for UI updates which is the worst possible thing you can do... just try to use element.io in a Tor Browser on a normal xDSL connection and you'll see what i mean (unless it's improved recently). So on this scale of the absurdity of modern software engineering, 100ms latency for user interaction is not all that bad... although my GUI/CLI tools in the 90s were much snappier than that and we have in fact greatly regressed as a field.
made my blood boil every time I had to use them. Even the poster child for a good Electron app, VS code, while packed with cool features, feels so sluggish next to Qt Creator that it distracts me from my work constantly when I use it.
Thankfully, on my Linux desktop, the actual number of such apps I actually need is precisely zero, everything has at least one (much snappier) Qt or GTK alternative.
> just try to use element.io in a Tor Browser on a normal xDSL connection and you'll see what i mean (unless it's improved recently).
I just tried without Tor and counted 5-6 seconds between the time where I clicked on "Open in your browser" and the page actually showing up here: https://element.io/get-started, so I'll happily pass
Many modern JS/Electron apps are in fact network bound for UI updates which is the worst possible thing you can do... just try to use element.io in a Tor Browser on a normal xDSL connection and you'll see what i mean (unless it's improved recently). So on this scale of the absurdity of modern software engineering, 100ms latency for user interaction is not all that bad... although my GUI/CLI tools in the 90s were much snappier than that and we have in fact greatly regressed as a field.