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I agree with you. I can't think of a better language for writing GUI then Javascript right now, in particular because it has so many great toolkits and widget l

I agree with you. I can't think of a better language for writing GUI then Javascript right now, in particular because it has so many great toolkits and widget libraries. But what makes those apps resource hungry and sluggish is usually not the UI: it's the whole lot of applicationg logic that's buried into their cores using Javascript code for stuff the language was not designed for. I'm primarly a Python developer too, and on that respect I like Python's approach to C extensions. It's easy enough to rewrite your application logic into C when performance is important, and in general I think experienced Python programmers will do just that. The problem with Electron is both the lack of support for doing this, and the lack of experienced developers willing to do it.

geofft 9y ago
Yes - and even when I was working on the Qt apps, I really wanted a shared non-Qt and preferably non-C++ library for application logic that was nicely portable between Qt on desktop, Python for the spots where we needed it, and Android (Java) and iOS (Objective-C). I am reasonably excited about WebAssembly as a solution for this for web apps. (Although web apps also have a natural front-end/back-end separation, and people consider JS as just one of many potential options for a back-end language, which helps a lot here.) It does surprise me that there isn't good support for doing this with actual native code on Electron.