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Electron is popular with developers, not users.

• moksly 7y ago
  Then why are Discord and Visual Studio Code both so popular and well liked by their users?
  • dgellow 7y ago
    Because they provide features their users care about. Not because of their choice of framework.
    • dragonwriter 7y ago
      Proving that features are important, native controls...not so much.
• thiht 7y ago
  Any data backing that up? Don't forget HN users are a bubble. I'm actually pretty sure standard users don't even notice a difference between Electron and native apps. I for one sometimes prefer Electron apps over badly designed and ugly native apps.