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Slow, sluggish, resource hungry and looks alien everywhere. Yeah right. Progress ... If there is one thing its done is lower standard for native applications ev
by albeva 10y ago
Slow, sluggish, resource hungry and looks alien everywhere. Yeah right. Progress ... If there is one thing its done is lower standard for native applications everywhere.
- serge2k 10y agoAs someone above said, they have achieved what Java/Swing set out to do in the 90s.
- spiderfarmer 10y agoJust like websites. They'll never succeed. /s
- blub 10y agoQuality of implementation has some correlation with market success, but ultimately there are many variables involved. Just the other day someone had detailed that they have a business based on Delphi with some ancient database. Can't be rewritten, but it brings in revenue.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago> Just the other day someone had detailed that they have a business based on Delphi with some ancient database. Can't be rewritten, but it brings in revenue. And quality-wise it's probably better than any alternative "cloud-based" solution they could buy these days.
- izacus 10y agoJust because something is "succeeding" it doesn't mean it's not bads qualitywise or it provides a good experience. (Case in point - Windows Vista :P )
- pritambaral 10y agoWebsites don't take up 30+ MB disk and 100+ MB RAM (well, not in Firefox anyway, and that's another thing Electron is missing: switchable runtimes and rendering engines, unlike the web)
- asadlionpk 10y agoit's better to have a slow app out for users than having no app at all.
- toupeira 10y agoDepends, it might prevent somebody from building a proper app because the slow one is "good enough".
- oceanswave 10y agoSpoken like a true assembly programmer.
- mediochrea 10y agoYeah, because Facebook/WhatsApp can't afford a native desktop client.
- proyb2 10y agoIn a way, Electron is web enabled as a web browser and very stable across platform. Native application might not be 100% reliable.