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yeah but modern programmers are also solving harder problems. Compare games from early consoles and today, the scope is vastly larger.

pjmlp 7y ago
Like shipping Electron apps.
- imtringued 7y ago
  Electron solves a very important problem. It efficiently prevents those pesky Linux users from using your software. Most electron apps simply do not work with Wine.
  - valzam 7y ago
    Wait, what? The point of electron is to be cross platform, I never had an issue running an electron app on Linux.
    - noisem4ker 7y ago
      It seems to me that the point of Electron is, in many cases, to leverage existing knowledge of client-side web programming paradigms and tools. Multi-platform support is just a bonus that comes with it.
- newswasboring 7y ago
  Honestly dude, I know you are trying to joke and all but this just sounds incredibly rude. This minimization of someone else's skill is petty and absurd. Electron apps serve their purpose and have their place, hating on them will not get you anywhere.
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    Yep, turning my computer into a heater doing cold winter. Sometimes it is really important.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
- papito 7y ago
  Writing Electron apps for me, as a matter of fact, brings back the time when one had to be hyper-mindful of CPU cycles, just like back in the day when I was writing Windows apps in C++. Everything is going through the prism of "but how much will it cost in terms of performance? Granted, this should be the case for server software as well, but in case of clients, you don't know what ghetto shit your code will run on - you write for the worst possible case. Server specs are unknown.
  - clownpenis_fart 7y ago
    Here it is. The stupidest thing I've read all day.
- JohnBooty 7y ago
  Folks crap on Electron apps and rightfully so, but I absolutely LOVE one thing about them relative to native GUI apps. I can hit cmd+ and cmd- to scale their content and UI up and down. That is dang near a killer feature for me. Very handy for presenting, screen sharing, when I move my apps to an external monitor with a slightly different UI, or for moments when my eyes are simply tired and I want something easy to read. You can say that I shouldn't need hundreds of MB of RAM to run Slack's desktop client, and you ain't wrong, but I've got plenty of RAM. My eyes and my time are much more finite resources.

pjmlp 7y ago

Like shipping Electron apps.

imtringued 7y ago
Electron solves a very important problem. It efficiently prevents those pesky Linux users from using your software. Most electron apps simply do not work with Wine.
- valzam 7y ago
  Wait, what? The point of electron is to be cross platform, I never had an issue running an electron app on Linux.
  - noisem4ker 7y ago
    It seems to me that the point of Electron is, in many cases, to leverage existing knowledge of client-side web programming paradigms and tools. Multi-platform support is just a bonus that comes with it.
newswasboring 7y ago
Honestly dude, I know you are trying to joke and all but this just sounds incredibly rude. This minimization of someone else's skill is petty and absurd. Electron apps serve their purpose and have their place, hating on them will not get you anywhere.
- pjmlp 7y ago
  Yep, turning my computer into a heater doing cold winter. Sometimes it is really important.
- deleted 7y ago
  [deleted]
papito 7y ago
Writing Electron apps for me, as a matter of fact, brings back the time when one had to be hyper-mindful of CPU cycles, just like back in the day when I was writing Windows apps in C++. Everything is going through the prism of "but how much will it cost in terms of performance? Granted, this should be the case for server software as well, but in case of clients, you don't know what ghetto shit your code will run on - you write for the worst possible case. Server specs are unknown.
- clownpenis_fart 7y ago
  Here it is. The stupidest thing I've read all day.
JohnBooty 7y ago
Folks crap on Electron apps and rightfully so, but I absolutely LOVE one thing about them relative to native GUI apps. I can hit cmd+ and cmd- to scale their content and UI up and down. That is dang near a killer feature for me. Very handy for presenting, screen sharing, when I move my apps to an external monitor with a slightly different UI, or for moments when my eyes are simply tired and I want something easy to read. You can say that I shouldn't need hundreds of MB of RAM to run Slack's desktop client, and you ain't wrong, but I've got plenty of RAM. My eyes and my time are much more finite resources.