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That's short-sighted. Electron sucks, but the fact people use it means there's a lack of proper, easy solutions for multiplatform development. Companies will a
by bantunes 9y ago
That's short-sighted. Electron sucks, but the fact people use it means there's a lack of proper, easy solutions for multiplatform development.
Companies will always take the easy path because capitalism. It's up to us (native toolkit devs) to make the easier path better.
- detaro 9y agoThe tweet discussed is about their web version
- Royalaid 9y agoI believe this is a response saying that electron made cross platform easy but at the cost of performance. Native clients still aren't as easy to build as html+css+js and the barrier to entry or cost to maintain is too high vs wrapping the web app you already built.
- nottorp 9y agoBut they don't have a desktop version. Their so called native apps are html in a browser.
- swiley 9y agoBundling an X11 server and writing your app in Motif/Lesstif would be easier and less resource intensive honestly. Is there a platform out there that has no X server?
- JD557 9y ago>Is there a platform out there that has no X server? XQuartz on Mac OS X sucks (maybe it's just Inkscape though) and I'm not sure if there's decent Windows support. Qt might work, though.
- swiley 9y ago>XQuartz on Mac OS X sucks I've used it, it wasn't bad at all but it definitely clashed visually (not that electron apps don't.) >I'm not sure if there's decent Windows support. Cygwin with X11 is one of the first things I install on my work machine whenever I get a new job. It can't do fancy GTK stuff super well but most of the apps I use work great.