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This is exciting news, but in the world of Electron apps I do wonder if it is not too late already. Qt has been around for a while and though it gained tractio

This is exciting news, but in the world of Electron apps I do wonder if it is not too late already. Qt has been around for a while and though it gained traction Electron is far outpacing it. It seems that there is no ASP.NET Core since it was borne out of an actual use case with ASP.NET. Again, kudos to the author and it seems like a great technical feat, but to my knowledge what matters is adoption rate.

camus2 9y ago
> This is exciting news, but in the world of Electron apps I do wonder if it is not too late already. You're acting like the whole desktop app industry has moved to implementing desktop apps in HTML with Electron. Fortunately for users this assertion is false, given how shitty most Electron apps are usability and performance wise (VSCode being the only exception).
- roryisok 9y ago
  The performance problems with electron are widely known, but I rarely see anyone complain about electron usability? Surely that's got nothing to do with the underlying technology?
pjmlp 9y ago
Thankfully no one around me is either using Electron or thinking about even trying it out. As for Qt, web devs have C++ allergy, hence why the company behind Qt came up with QML. exactly to fight against this trend.
- roryisok 9y ago
  I'm feeling an increasing sense of hostility towards "web devs" lately.
  - devopsproject 9y ago
    It's frustration, not hostility. The solution is always HotNewFrameworkStillInBeta.js
- arenaninja 9y ago
  Yes, web devs do have C++ allergy. More specifically I think the aversion is to doing your own memory allocation. To me this makes sense. Web developers will typically have a handle on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, SQL, NodeJS. Some will even be good at most of these. There's design patterns on most of these that are significantly different. The context change from one language to another exacts a toll, which I imagine why Node found a niche in the first place. Electron seems to be finding another.

camus2 9y ago

> This is exciting news, but in the world of Electron apps I do wonder if it is not too late already. You're acting like the whole desktop app industry has moved to implementing desktop apps in HTML with Electron. Fortunately for users this assertion is false, given how shitty most Electron apps are usability and performance wise (VSCode being the only exception).

roryisok 9y ago
The performance problems with electron are widely known, but I rarely see anyone complain about electron usability? Surely that's got nothing to do with the underlying technology?

pjmlp 9y ago

Thankfully no one around me is either using Electron or thinking about even trying it out. As for Qt, web devs have C++ allergy, hence why the company behind Qt came up with QML. exactly to fight against this trend.

roryisok 9y ago
I'm feeling an increasing sense of hostility towards "web devs" lately.
- devopsproject 9y ago
  It's frustration, not hostility. The solution is always HotNewFrameworkStillInBeta.js
arenaninja 9y ago
Yes, web devs do have C++ allergy. More specifically I think the aversion is to doing your own memory allocation. To me this makes sense. Web developers will typically have a handle on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, SQL, NodeJS. Some will even be good at most of these. There's design patterns on most of these that are significantly different. The context change from one language to another exacts a toll, which I imagine why Node found a niche in the first place. Electron seems to be finding another.