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right but some of us don’t have and don’t want chrome already installed.

• dangoor 8y ago
  If you've got any Electron apps, you kinda sorta do already have Chrome installed. That said, I generally agree that requiring Chrome to run an app is not great.
  • jrockway 8y ago
    Yeah. "Real" native apps feel a lot better, and of course ship you a lot less code. It is hard to justify the development effort for that, though, so this is the compromise. An app these days ideally supports Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iPhone, and the web... and that requires a lot of software engineers. Being able to write the bulk of the code once is appealing. But to the end user... they can tell that shortcuts were taken.
    • pjmlp 8y ago
      Strangely enough I and many other engineers were able to write multiplaform applications in the early 2000 without Electron crap. Maybe we were special, the lasts of a dying breed.