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> My point is that tools like Electron are actually making it harder to do fast and multi-threaded code on desktop Absolutely. Electron is worse than native, I
by untog 11y ago
> My point is that tools like Electron are actually making it harder to do fast and multi-threaded code on desktop
Absolutely. Electron is worse than native, I'd never disagree with that. But I don't think people are looking at Electron and saying "hmm, shall we do Electron or native?", they're saying "oh great, Electron means we can make a capable cross-platform desktop app, something we don't have the time nor budget to do otherwise".
- royjacobs 11y agoThat's true. It's an enabler for some companies, which can only be applauded. I'm not sure I'm too happy with the "worse is better than nothing" mentality I guess, but that's a more general problem :)
- oceanswave 11y agoNothing precludes an Electron app from being multithreaded (though WebWorkers, child processes and more) or relying on native components to improve CPU intensive tasks. If someone is wanting to release a shitty application, they're going to do so irrespective of Electron availability.