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I don't use Electron and haven't been following, but isn't Electron a UI only framework? What I mean is what is preventing you from writing a C/C++ library, in

I don't use Electron and haven't been following, but isn't Electron a UI only framework? What I mean is what is preventing you from writing a C/C++ library, installing it down with your Electron UI and having the Electron App call out to the high performance .so? PhoneGap gets a lot of hate because it's _slow_ and single threaded in an environment that is starved for resources. This can impact user experience even in _just_ a UI context. On a desktop, a single core is many times faster and there are much greater resources so I don't see it as having as large an impact on UI (if any at all noticeable user experience degredations). This is of course provided Electron is (or can be) UI _only_. Just curious :) since I have never really heard of Electron before this.

Santosh83 10y ago
While I guess you can do that, most developers using Electron are so familiar with HTML/Javascript/CSS and related web technologies that building a C/C++ module for the bulk of their app might seem only a step above going "full native".
tracker1 10y ago
The underlying JS engine is, iirc Node based... you can definitely use/utilize C/C++ modules/packages there... and very little is stopping someone from doing that. There are also child processes (and iirc, web-workers). While a Process !== a thread, on some OSes they are more similar or less in terms of creation cost. RPC/Communication channels are another issue combined with message serialization/deserialization which is the biggest cost to overcome with this type of model.