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Electron != web app. Have you tried using Slack's actual web client vs the Electron app? I personally strongly prefer the stand-alone client. The same with the
by IgorPartola 9y ago
Electron != web app. Have you tried using Slack's actual web client vs the Electron app? I personally strongly prefer the stand-alone client. The same with the git GUI client. The equivalent web thing is github.com.
If the original statement was "I prefer Electron for my desktop apps over Qt/Wx/GTK/etc." I could totally understand that. But the original comment was "My 'go to GUI' is a web app". That's not the same thing. It is our modern version of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
- cabalamat 9y ago> It is our modern version of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." No. I've written GUI software, and tools for building GUI software[1], in the past. 1: https://github.com/cabalamat/parrot https://github.com/cabalamat/parrot