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I think Electron is popular because you can hire web devs to make a desktop product. With JS you can write code that runs on your server (NodeJS) desktop (Elect

by mc3 7y ago

I think Electron is popular because you can hire web devs to make a desktop product. With JS you can write code that runs on your server (NodeJS) desktop (Electron), browser and mobile app (Cordova). It's not a great experience but it is good for rapid development, easier hiring of skills (just need some web devs!) and the code reuse might be helpful for bug reduction.

buboard 7y ago
Its also slow and bloated. You get what you pay for
- pmoleri 7y ago
  Bloated, yes. Slow, no. You start at a not so low binary size and memory footprint, but that's it. VS Code is an awesome IDE built on electron and it's really snappy.
  - weberc2 7y ago
    VS Code has not been snappy for me. Especially with large screen sizes and lots of widegets. For example, if I close the left-hand pane and shrink the window, performance improves considerably.
  - mc3 7y ago
    Not nearly as snappy as notepad++/sublime, which are in turn not as snappy as Vim.
ajxs 7y ago
> you can hire web devs to make a desktop product This is a bug, not a feature.