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> Web technologies are more and more about developer convenience instead of user convenience. Clearly. But I wonder: If electron didn't exist, would e.g.: Slac
by yoz-y 6y ago
> Web technologies are more and more about developer convenience instead of user convenience.
Clearly. But I wonder: If electron didn't exist, would e.g.: Slack or Discord applications be native or wouldn't exist at all. I'm quite convinced that the latter is true.
- NullPrefix 6y ago>Slack or Discord applications [..] wouldn't exist at all You say it like it's a bad thing.
- yoz-y 6y agoNobody is forced to use them, if you like having the chat in a browser fine, more power to you. People who prefer clients can install those, also good. I'd also like to live in an alternative universe where all companies can pay more developers to develop native applications for all platforms, unfortunately that is not the case.
- anoncake 6y agoChat applications existed long before Electron.
- yoz-y 6y agoThat wasn't my point, just examples. Chat apps did exist but Slack, Discord, VS Code, Obsidian, GitKraken and so on and so forth did not. Personally I prefer a native app. But I'd rather have an electron app with real notifications, dock icon, and isolation over a browser tab.