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With the success of Electron apps (i.e. Slack), I am starting to think this level of OS/GUI Fidelity isn't all that important. As long as the application is att
by cmiles74 9y ago
With the success of Electron apps (i.e. Slack), I am starting to think this level of OS/GUI Fidelity isn't all that important. As long as the application is attractive and does the job, people don't seem to care that much about it matching the OS look and feel.
- thezilch 9y agoI wouldn't pin the success of any app on Electron. Most would gain a lot from pivoting away.
- gkya 9y agoThis is a very common misconception these days, IMHO. "Because people just use best of what's available, I presume that they are actually content with what they have." Today another thread talking about web apps and the heaviness thereof, people suggest that given people use these apps/websites, they must really prefer these slow, messy and creepy things to plain, information-dense sources. This might be indeed true, but you can't conclude so just observing the status quo from outside.
- chii 9y agoinstead of "best", I'd say people use what's good enough. electron is good enough for most people, and some people do notice the high resource usage, but they are in the minority, as most users don't attribute sluggishness of the machine on the app that's not slow (and electron can be made to feel fast if you know what you're doing).
- gkya 9y agoElectron is not "good enough for people" because people don't know about it, or, to put it better, are not supposed to know about it. It's an implementation detail. > sluggishness of the machine So say a machine with 4GB ram and a decent 4-core CPU around 1.8 GHz is sluggish? Let's honestly say "we're sacrificing resources on the client side for ease of development on ours".