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Its more about why would you go spend few months learning something, if you can build it in few days with electron.

by efrafa 10y ago

fredsir 10y ago
Because you can't. An Electron app is not equal to a native app when it comes to UX and UI. Right off the bat: they require more resources to run, thus making your computer slower, a laptops battery last less on a single charge, and don't look and work like native apps thus requires the user to learn a new paradigm. So instead of you, the developer, using a couple of months to learn a new paradigm, you put that burden on your users, and end up with something that is a whole lot worse than standard native apps on Mac, Linux and Windows. If you only have 1 user, that is no hassle, but if you have 5 million users, that is a whole lot of time that a whole lot of users needs to spend collectively because you are lazy and want to ship something fast instead of shipping something great. And no, I have never tried a great Electron app. I don't think they exist.
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  > If you only have 1 user, that is no hassle, but if you have 5 million users, that is a whole lot of time that a whole lot of users needs to spend collectively because you are lazy and want to ship something fast instead of shipping something great. Exactly. That's the externality a lot of software companies nowadays generate.
- oblio 10y ago
  What new paradigm? Almost every computer user out there knows the web paradigm. They use it on every platform. The barrier to entry for Electron apps is 0, the same as for native apps.
  - fredsir 10y ago
    What are you talking about? Are you saying that because someone is adept at browsing Wikipedia or Hacker News, they intuitively know how to use Spotify and Slack and Atom?
- oceanswave 10y ago
  "they require more resources to run, thus making your computer slower, a laptops battery last less on a single charge," But yet you used a either a browser or the HN mobile app (cordova) to post here... guess that means function > fitness.
  - fredsir 10y ago
    That is one browser. Because of work, I also need Slack. That is two. You get the picture.
    - oceanswave 10y ago
      I've also got Outlook open, so that's at least 25.

Its more about why would you go spend few months learning something, if you can build it in few days with electron.

by efrafa 10y ago

Its more about why would you go spend few months learning something, if you can build it in few days with electron.

Because you can't. An Electron app is not equal to a native app when it comes to UX and UI. Right off the bat: they require more resources to run, thus making your computer slower, a laptops battery last less on a single charge, and don't look and work like native apps thus requires the user to learn a new paradigm. So instead of you, the developer, using a couple of months to learn a new paradigm, you put that burden on your users, and end up with something that is a whole lot worse than standard native apps on Mac, Linux and Windows. If you only have 1 user, that is no hassle, but if you have 5 million users, that is a whole lot of time that a whole lot of users needs to spend collectively because you are lazy and want to ship something fast instead of shipping something great. And no, I have never tried a great Electron app. I don't think they exist.

TeMPOraL 10y ago
> If you only have 1 user, that is no hassle, but if you have 5 million users, that is a whole lot of time that a whole lot of users needs to spend collectively because you are lazy and want to ship something fast instead of shipping something great. Exactly. That's the externality a lot of software companies nowadays generate.
oblio 10y ago
What new paradigm? Almost every computer user out there knows the web paradigm. They use it on every platform. The barrier to entry for Electron apps is 0, the same as for native apps.
- fredsir 10y ago
  What are you talking about? Are you saying that because someone is adept at browsing Wikipedia or Hacker News, they intuitively know how to use Spotify and Slack and Atom?
oceanswave 10y ago
"they require more resources to run, thus making your computer slower, a laptops battery last less on a single charge," But yet you used a either a browser or the HN mobile app (cordova) to post here... guess that means function > fitness.
- fredsir 10y ago
  That is one browser. Because of work, I also need Slack. That is two. You get the picture.
  - oceanswave 10y ago
    I've also got Outlook open, so that's at least 25.