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> glorified chat apps like Slack Sure, let's just call the app that many many tech teams use as an app that doesn't matter. It's not perfect. But it's certai
by arvinsim 7y ago
> glorified chat apps like Slack
Sure, let's just call the app that many many tech teams use as an app that doesn't matter.
It's not perfect. But it's certainly not insignificant.
- zapzupnz 7y agoIt's also not a poster boy for a good app, Electron or not. It looks uglier than plenty of native chat apps and still manages to take up an amazing amount of RAM doing absolutely nothing.
- pjmlp 7y agoIf you mean Slack, they have announced at Google IO that they will migrate to a PWA. Check the PWA and what is coming to the Web talks. One reason less to bother with Electron.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoSo they're moving from one chromium-wrapped desktop web app to another (or, really, they're changing the backing library/framework). Do desktop PWAs have access to native APIs as a native app would? That's a draw of Electron but not sure why anyone would want it in an application like Slack that works just fine in a browser tab.
- pjmlp 7y agoI only have one copy of Chrome on my computer. Yes, PWAs have different levels of access to host APIs.