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The only real benefit I see to Electron is it's finally delivering what Java promised, which is apps that run on all platforms from a single code base. Although
by eridius 10y ago
The only real benefit I see to Electron is it's finally delivering what Java promised, which is apps that run on all platforms from a single code base. Although, just like Java, they end up having non-platform-native UIs, and I imagine there's still some amount of platform-specific work you need to do (e.g. providing appropriate keyboard shortcuts on each platform).
- umanwizard 10y ago> finally delivering what Java promised Isn't this mostly true for Java already? I certainly recall downloading various applications bundled in .jar's and having them work fine on whatever platform I happened to be using. I think people moved away from writing end-user apps in Java because they were bloated and slow and had ugly UIs, not because cross-platform development was super hard.