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Look several years into the future and what you could have there is electron being faster/lighter. Being web-based gives you a standard way for fetching and di
by Agebor 8y ago
Look several years into the future and what you could have there is electron being faster/lighter.
Being web-based gives you a standard way for fetching and displaying content. It's just a matter of time that the performance improves. Especially when many people are experimenting with it.
> maybe one day we can't even reach for a native email client because it will be unmaintained in favour of the hackable html webstack email client.
It's definitely possible, once the browser becomes the new OS.
- OberstKrueger 8y agoThat's what has been said for a while about Electron: it'll be optimized and less heavy. Most applications use Electron are just as heavy as they always has been, and where there are exceptions, it's more due to moving away from the Electron-stack and putting functionality in lower-level languages, or things like this where it uses only a few elements and defers to other rendering techniques.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoWhy spend the time and effort to do that, though? The amount of resources used to bring Electron into something reasonable could be better used elsewhere, advancing things that we don't already have.