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Neither of these things are true and there is enormous evidence. First, if it was fast enough, people wouldn't bring up its bloat and speed in every discussion
by BubRoss 7y ago
Neither of these things are true and there is enormous evidence.
First, if it was fast enough, people wouldn't bring up its bloat and speed in every discussion of slack.
Second, there are hundreds if not thousands of programs much more complicated than slack that work exceptionally well and have been made with these GUI libraries. A minimal amount of searching would show this.
- dmitriid 7y ago> First, if it was fast enough, people wouldn't bring up its bloat and speed in every discussion of slack. You should break out of HN bubble > Second, there are hundreds if not thousands of programs much more complicated than slack that work exceptionally well and have been made with these GUI libraries. A minimal amount of searching would show this. And yet, very few of those thousands of programs are cross-platform and just as few of those cross platform ones don't look like they where made by a high-school student on a string budget.
- BubRoss 7y agoTo be clear, you think all of the following programs look like they were made by a 'high school student' and this is an aspect where electron excels? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Applications_using_Qt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Applications_u... Adobe Photoshop Album, Adobe Photoshop Elements, AMD's driver tool, CryEngine, Autodesk Maya, Google Earth, Mathematica, Opera, OBS, Skype, Teamviewer, Telegram, VLC media player, Wireshark, QtCreator, Qbittorrent, Nuke, Xnview