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Kill Electron would be the bigger fear. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but it has enabled so many more applications for Linux that killing it would be a

Kill Electron would be the bigger fear. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but it has enabled so many more applications for Linux that killing it would be a major blow.

alkonaut 8y ago
But... vs code is based on electron too.
sfraise 8y ago
We're actually working on 2 Electron apps for a very very large corporate client right now so how they handle Electron is definitely a concern for us.
manigandham 8y ago
Microsoft uses Electron for VS Code, SQL Operations Studio, Azure Storage Explorer, Teams Desktop, Skype, and many other tools, and it has major traction with Slack, the Github Desktop App, Discord, and many other big companies. It's not going anywhere.
Kipters 8y ago
They have a bunch of Electron-based products (VS Code, Teams), it's unlikely they'd kill Electron
vxNsr 8y ago
And by far the most unfounded fear. As others have said MS has tons of their own apps using electron, to kill it would be to shoot themselves in both arms.
ytpete 8y ago
They could be pretty interested in shifting it away from Chromium an V8-based Node to something that uses platform webviews (Edge on Windows) and a platform-specific JS engine backing Node (ChakraCore on Windows). I believe they have posted open-source experimental forks in that direction in the past. That's very different from killing it, but it could make developing or supporting Electron apps more difficult - plus the fear that it could then start sliding down the slope of the Windows version getting more investment, eventually leading to the classic "it's best on Windows" embrace/extend platform lockin. I'm not betting on that being their play, but I could see how people would worry...
- manigandham 8y ago
  The whole point of Electron is equal cross-platform abilities from a single code-base. Making it run "best on windows" is the complete opposite goal and rather silly considering they already have several native UI and app frameworks made for Windows.

Kill Electron would be the bigger fear. I know a lot of people don’t like it, but it has enabled so many more applications for Linux that killing it would be a major blow.

alkonaut 8y ago

But... vs code is based on electron too.

sfraise 8y ago

We're actually working on 2 Electron apps for a very very large corporate client right now so how they handle Electron is definitely a concern for us.

manigandham 8y ago

Microsoft uses Electron for VS Code, SQL Operations Studio, Azure Storage Explorer, Teams Desktop, Skype, and many other tools, and it has major traction with Slack, the Github Desktop App, Discord, and many other big companies. It's not going anywhere.

Kipters 8y ago

They have a bunch of Electron-based products (VS Code, Teams), it's unlikely they'd kill Electron

vxNsr 8y ago

And by far the most unfounded fear. As others have said MS has tons of their own apps using electron, to kill it would be to shoot themselves in both arms.

ytpete 8y ago

They could be pretty interested in shifting it away from Chromium an V8-based Node to something that uses platform webviews (Edge on Windows) and a platform-specific JS engine backing Node (ChakraCore on Windows). I believe they have posted open-source experimental forks in that direction in the past. That's very different from killing it, but it could make developing or supporting Electron apps more difficult - plus the fear that it could then start sliding down the slope of the Windows version getting more investment, eventually leading to the classic "it's best on Windows" embrace/extend platform lockin. I'm not betting on that being their play, but I could see how people would worry...

manigandham 8y ago
The whole point of Electron is equal cross-platform abilities from a single code-base. Making it run "best on windows" is the complete opposite goal and rather silly considering they already have several native UI and app frameworks made for Windows.