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> There are legitimate technical grievances with Electron, but how many time must those be expressed? Every time until it's no longer used. JavaScript delenda
by zeveb 8y ago
> There are legitimate technical grievances with Electron, but how many time must those be expressed?
Every time until it's no longer used. JavaScript delenda est:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447851
> And QT, a popular window toolkit, is quite expensive unless you release your software under GPL
'Doc, it hurts unless I do this.'
Then do that! Don't be a software hoarder.
> Also, a single maintainer does not have time to work on three or more window toolkits for their app (Windows Forms, Cocoa, and GTK).
As I mentioned elsethread, X11 & POSIX are supported on Windows, macOS, Linux & the BSDs. Just write against that, and you're done.
- the_trapper 8y agoI'll take an Electron app on Windows any day over one that has to utilize an X11/POSIX layer to run. In fact I'm not aware of any widely utilized software on Windows that relies on the stack you're advocating for.
- loeg 8y agoI don't believe Qt on Windows uses or requires X11 in any way; grandfather commenter is just confused.
- CamperBob2 8y agoIt also isn't GPL-encumbered.