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Are we looking at the same article? Chromium and Electron are very much mentioned, and the author clearly states their position on the topic. I'll rephrase: Ch

by pierrec 10y ago

Are we looking at the same article? Chromium and Electron are very much mentioned, and the author clearly states their position on the topic. I'll rephrase: Chromium is a browser. An extremely full-featured browser, made to support the monstrous complexity and the security minefield of 20+ years of web standards piled on top of each other, and an impressive feat of backwards-compatibility allowing us to view ancient websites as well as modern ones using a vast array of different technologies. Great work. A lot of current laptops come with limited RAM and disk space. In light of this, the idea of a Chromium-based tea timer seems a little disconnected with reality. Somehow people still do it.

shadowmint 10y ago
If your tea-timer only runs on windows 10 with .Net 4.6 installed, that's a bit rubbish isn't it? Maybe it only took you 2 days to build, but you can't re-use any of that code when you port it to another platforms; ok, so you rewrite it in 2 days for mac. Sure. Maintenance is a bit of a pain but its no big deal. ...but what if it was an app that took 6 months to build, not 2 days? You're screwed on the delivery and on the maintenance. I think the point is that there are many examples of electron based applications like slack that have been hugely successful. Sure, there are other options you could use instead, and it is bloated, and slow, etc. etc.; but there's no denying that its a successful platform, like it or not.
ta34534445 10y ago
Horses for courses. If you're writing a tea timer perhaps chromium isn't the right tool for the job. I'd certainly be the first to agree and the author highlights this too. If your tiny application doesn't add much functionality, I'd even suggest that a multi platform solution isn't necessary. However, if you are writing a full featured desktop application, it starts to become a sensible option.

by pierrec 10y ago

shadowmint 10y ago

If your tea-timer only runs on windows 10 with .Net 4.6 installed, that's a bit rubbish isn't it? Maybe it only took you 2 days to build, but you can't re-use any of that code when you port it to another platforms; ok, so you rewrite it in 2 days for mac. Sure. Maintenance is a bit of a pain but its no big deal. ...but what if it was an app that took 6 months to build, not 2 days? You're screwed on the delivery and on the maintenance. I think the point is that there are many examples of electron based applications like slack that have been hugely successful. Sure, there are other options you could use instead, and it is bloated, and slow, etc. etc.; but there's no denying that its a successful platform, like it or not.

ta34534445 10y ago

Horses for courses. If you're writing a tea timer perhaps chromium isn't the right tool for the job. I'd certainly be the first to agree and the author highlights this too. If your tiny application doesn't add much functionality, I'd even suggest that a multi platform solution isn't necessary. However, if you are writing a full featured desktop application, it starts to become a sensible option.