I work at OpenAI, and I get the concern. From our side, this was a careful tradeoff: Electron lets us iterate faster and makes it possible to bring the Codex app to Windows and Linux very soon. That doesn’t mean performance or UX don’t matter—we’re actively paying attention to both.
Would genuinely love your thoughts if you try it. Early users have been surprised by how native it feels!
Could you please pass on feedback to the team that the git diff view is very hard to read for red/green colourblind users like myself? Colour scheme like GitUp.co is very readable for me.
the problem is that getting this out in this shape the week after Cursor made $100M ARR would have made sense
getting it out now suggests there are structural problems about how decisions get made and code gets shipped—and the "iterate faster" line feels misplaced
I don't really care about memory or how much of it is taken up by the editor. I have enough memory for the work that I do & UI performance would make no difference to my workflow.
Would genuinely love your thoughts if you try it. Early users have been surprised by how native it feels!