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It's weird to assume that developers who use Electron do so because they are ignorant, incompetent and lazy. The truth is, everybody knows about Qt, GTK and so

It's weird to assume that developers who use Electron do so because they are ignorant, incompetent and lazy. The truth is, everybody knows about Qt, GTK and so on, and everybody knows Electron is heavy but you have to be realistic. As a company do you want to spend that much money hiring a ton of C++ developers over a much longer period of time, or do you go for the solution which, while not ideal, allows you to develop a cross platform app in a much shorter time? These days many people run Electron apps without even knowing it, showing that it's an ok solution.

BubRoss 7y ago
> It's weird to assume that developers who use Electron do so because they are ignorant, incompetent and lazy. I don't think I said all that > As a company do you want to spend that much money hiring a ton of C++ developers over a much longer period of time, This I think is a big assumption. Making a GUI isn't really that difficult. Most of the time in a program doesn't go into making the actual UI. I never hear someone who is experienced in making UIs say that electron saves them so much time, it is always people assuming it takes an army of C++ people to do what one person can do with electron, which is bizarre, especially over the course of something that is more than a prototype.
- laurent123456 7y ago
  > I don't think I said all that Kind of: "inexperience", "lack of research", "don't want to learn C++" > Making a GUI isn't really that difficult. Also a big assumption, especially for cross-platform GUIs.
  - BubRoss 7y ago
    If you don't know the difference between "inexperience and a lack of research" and "ignorant, incompetent and lazy" then I don't know what to tell you. It seems like you are hallucinating some sort of persecution. It is not a big assumption, I've done it many times. What is it that you think electron gives you that cross platform GUIs don't have? Making the actual UI is usually pretty trivial, it isn't even logic, just data through function calls.

BubRoss 7y ago

> It's weird to assume that developers who use Electron do so because they are ignorant, incompetent and lazy. I don't think I said all that > As a company do you want to spend that much money hiring a ton of C++ developers over a much longer period of time, This I think is a big assumption. Making a GUI isn't really that difficult. Most of the time in a program doesn't go into making the actual UI. I never hear someone who is experienced in making UIs say that electron saves them so much time, it is always people assuming it takes an army of C++ people to do what one person can do with electron, which is bizarre, especially over the course of something that is more than a prototype.

laurent123456 7y ago
> I don't think I said all that Kind of: "inexperience", "lack of research", "don't want to learn C++" > Making a GUI isn't really that difficult. Also a big assumption, especially for cross-platform GUIs.
- BubRoss 7y ago
  If you don't know the difference between "inexperience and a lack of research" and "ignorant, incompetent and lazy" then I don't know what to tell you. It seems like you are hallucinating some sort of persecution. It is not a big assumption, I've done it many times. What is it that you think electron gives you that cross platform GUIs don't have? Making the actual UI is usually pretty trivial, it isn't even logic, just data through function calls.