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Half of electron is being able to leverage the Node.js ecosystem and Chrome APIs. Creating a "drop in" replacement would require a ton of work and constant keep

by inglor 8y ago

Half of electron is being able to leverage the Node.js ecosystem and Chrome APIs. Creating a "drop in" replacement would require a ton of work and constant keeping up-to-date.

acdha 8y ago
> leverage the Node.js ecosystem and Chrome APIs Aren't those fairly discrete areas with fairly different levels of work? Doesn't most of what's on NPM run in WebKit / Gecko these days, anyway, since people commonly deploy client-side?