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Perhaps the "slowness" of web-based technologies like Electron et al is just the price we pay for truly universal cross-platform development? Sure there are na
by mattlondon 6y ago
Perhaps the "slowness" of web-based technologies like Electron et al is just the price we pay for truly universal cross-platform development?
Sure there are native options on each major platform that are faster, but they are generally not universally cross-platform. Web-tech may be slow in comparison, but it is universal.
The question though, is it a price worth paying?
Many other things have tried to be a universal cross-platform solution for apps but I don't think anything has come as close to web-based technologies (maybe only Java? And that is not exactly everyone's favourite tool for creating great cross-platform UIs and it is arguable if Java is even "native" anyway)
- krapp 6y ago>Perhaps the "slowness" of web-based technologies like Electron et al is just the price we pay for truly universal cross-platform development? No. That implies Electron is the best possible model by which "truly universal cross-platform development" could be achieved. We could do better, but we just don't bother trying because the web was already ubiquitous when Electron came along and web developers were already dime a dozen.