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> Yes - electron apps are slower and eat more ram - but someone else is paying for that. I hope you're being facetious here. If you develop any kind of deskto
by Splines 10y ago
> Yes - electron apps are slower and eat more ram - but someone else is paying for that.
I hope you're being facetious here. If you develop any kind of desktop application and truly believe this, honestly this is disappointing to read.
- bryanrasmussen 10y agowell if the developers or company don't actually use the app then their users are the ones paying for the ram, aren't they?
- dagw 10y agoDoing something quick and dirty in electron takes N hours. Doing a 'proper' cross platform native app the right way takes N+P hours. If people are willing to pay for those extra P hours then I'd be more than happy to do things the 'right' way. However almost nobody is. I've spent a lot of time on team web-apps-suck, and in many ways I'm still a casual fan. But the truth is I can go from zero to good enough much faster with web apps than anything else, and unfortunately most people only want to pay for good enough.
- groovy2shoes 10y ago> Doing something quick and dirty in electron takes N hours. Doing a 'proper' cross platform native app the right way takes N+P hours. Source? Really, I'm not at all convinced that whipping up an Electron app is inherently quicker than whipping up a native app. Especially when we have robust, mature RAD tools for native toolkits, and things like Qt Quick, WPF, and Java FX let you go the whole "write your GUI in some markup language" route, if that's your bag.