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sandboxed file system access. People use electron because they need things like registry keys, reading/writing files from anywhere on the system, interaction wi
by devwastaken 8y ago
sandboxed file system access. People use electron because they need things like registry keys, reading/writing files from anywhere on the system, interaction with specific kernal functions, and tons of things browsers cannot give anywhere the same flexibility to without becoming a major vector for malware. Not to mention a lot of electron apps, like Spotify, use their own c++ libs, like Spotify json, because browser perf sucks.
You cannot sandbox and have native access, full stop.