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> Not for the HN purists. Is that necessarily a bad thing? I'll throw a great counter-example to you, Mattermost. It's a great open source project that uses El
by vvanders 10y ago
> Not for the HN purists.
Is that necessarily a bad thing? I'll throw a great counter-example to you, Mattermost. It's a great open source project that uses Electron to build a client app for just about every single platform.
Have you maintained a cross-platform app for Windows, OSX, and all the various flavor of linux? I have, it's hell. You have compiler differences, ui semantic differences and a litany of per-platform quirks.
Does Electron solve every single use case? No. However in the cases where it makes sense it's a great tool.
- pjmlp 10y agoI also have, and would keep on using Java, Qt, wxWidgets than bothering with Electron, and I do have my share of web projects. Also for all the kids out there, Electron is the second coming of the MSHTML ActiveX engine. I didn't like it then, surely don't like it now.