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I think you're right on many points, and I was more referring to the posts just complaining about it being in Electron at all as if Electron was some kind of ba
by e_proxus 9y ago
I think you're right on many points, and I was more referring to the posts just complaining about it being in Electron at all as if Electron was some kind of bad word which should immediately trigger dismissal.
> I think that "Something like Electron but native" is a confusing idea. The browser engine that Electron uses is native to the OS it's running on...
Here I meant native as in a natively compiled language. The browser is also invisible in this case, and the whole Electron model adds so many layers (which is part of the resource usage problem).
> If Electron has taught us anything, it's that customer's don't really care that much about an application appearing to be "native".
In this case I meant native as in blending in with the desktop environment, which I think Electron apps are more successful at than other toolkits (which are often natively compiled).
- cmiles74 9y agoI find the appearance of Electron applications pleasing, I am not trying to take a crack at Electron when I say this: I don't think they are particularly native looking and I think this is an advantage to Electron. The point I was trying to make is that I don't think "looking native" is all that important anymore. Web applications seem to have trained people away from that "I can only click on things that look like buttons" straight-jacket.