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What do you have against electron?

• fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
  Electron apps don’t really look or work right on a Mac.
  • capableweb 6y ago
    There is plenty of reasons to not like Electron apps, but that they don't look right is not one of them, as Electron apps don't come with any styling built-in, it's all up to the developers of the apps to style things.
    • fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
      Yeah, that’s the problem: I don’t want to use apps written in frameworks that let the developer style the basic controls. If I’m ok a Mac, I want to see Mac buttons, dropdowns, etc. and I want them to be provided by the OS so I can rely on OS services working: the Cocoa input system is pretty sophisticated and I inevitably run into edge cases with attempts to emulate it in electron apps.
      • capableweb 6y ago
        I see. I take it you never use a browser either then? Because most of the web apps don't have Mac styling, AFAIK.
        • fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
          I mean, it’s hard to avoid, but I try to use native apps whenever possible.
        • dormento 6y ago
          To be fair, OP was clearly talking about native apps. My 2c: an Electron app looks "alien" (for lack of a better word) on every platform that supports it. Especially so when it implements deep integration like a menu bar widget. One would expect it to obey the operating system human interface guidelines. This in itself makes it unsuited for the task. Even more so when the main reason to use electron (code reuse and ease of porting to other platforms) is not fully realized (as this appears to be mac-only).
• shp0ngle 6y ago
  They have a big CPU and RAM usage. ...which is not an issue on M1 macs, so far, but that's for now.
• Qub3d 6y ago
  I for one am okay with the idea of spawning an entire headless browser for something that uses a full window - slack, spotify, etc. but for drawing a toolbar? That's a bit much. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26437249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26437249