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Hard to take any of the arguments seriously when looking at the Electron app they just released on desktop.

• kelnos 7y ago
  I initially had a similar thought, but I don't think that applies here. With Electron, you don't write a cross-platform base and then write all the platform-specific goo on top of it. You just write your app using web technologies, press the build button, and ship it on all the platforms you want to support. Since web technologies are popular, you don't end up with the same issues hiring and training developers like you do when you need to teach a new hire about your bespoke cross-platform mobile solution. With Electron, essentially your users pay for all of this by being forced to adopt a resource-hungry platform, while the development team gets a mostly-free pass.
  • seabrookmx 7y ago
    And while a lot of developer-y types complain, a bit of extra resource usage on a laptop/desktop isn't nearly as big of deal as it is on mobile. Especially if your business (like so many nowadays) has way more users on mobile than it does on the desktop.