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Good luck rejecting something when it's mandated by your job, as is often the case with slack and other electron-crapware. Electron apps exist because it's not
by Kliment 8y ago
Good luck rejecting something when it's mandated by your job, as is often the case with slack and other electron-crapware. Electron apps exist because it's not the users deciding what the things they use are built in, it's the people who build them. For the vast majority of electron apps there isn't a non-electron alternative that allows you to do the same on said platform, and that's not even starting to look at network effects.
- yyyymmddhhmmss 8y agoMoot point. Parent did not suggest that users decide which libraries or methods to use in development. Nothing of the sort. Electron apps come at a steep price, so if it didn’t offer something to the users, it would be hard to understand the proliferation. In many cases, it offers extremely similar availability on more platforms for less expense than the native alternative dev processes. The argument is if it lost users, that would need to be accounted for. I don’t believe it does.