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>Electron is the result of people trained in web development turning their hands to desktop development, but not wanting to learn something completely new. "Le
by aphextron 8y ago
>Electron is the result of people trained in web development turning their hands to desktop development, but not wanting to learn something completely new.
"Learning something new" has a massive cost when you apply that to an entire engineering team. A tool that can leverage existing resources to make people proficient in a new area simply through new technology would be a huge value added IMO.
- beojan 8y agoElectron just externalizes the cost, it doesn't eliminate it. Electron is a little like auto-translating your UI. It's easier for the developer and the user pays the price.