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> It just exists because JavaScript developers don’t want to learn something new. Are you sure? I started building a desktop application recently. As much as I

> It just exists because JavaScript developers don’t want to learn something new. Are you sure? I started building a desktop application recently. As much as I abhor Electron and refuse to touch anything built on top of it, there basically wasn't any other choice due to the absolutely massive amounts of libraries written for the web. I threw a couple of them in and it saved me at least 90% of work compared to what I would have to do if I'd chosen Qt (or anything else native). Would I rather spend a week and have something to show to my client, or roll up my sleeves and re-implement everything myself (which would take about half a year before I'd have anything working at all)? (For the record, I didn't downvote you. I consider it a shitty practice to downvote somebody for their opinion, without even replying.)

burlesona 6y ago
Yeah, and I meant that with a wink then wrote at lengthy justification for that thinking, lol. Oh well, I rephrased to take out the jest. I don’t disagree with you about why people use Electron. There’s a positive feedback loop around ecosystem sizes. The bigger the platform the more devs use it the more tools they make the more libraries are made the more it’s the easiest way to do X the more applications are written for it the bigger the platform gets. Anything you can offer to a large group of developers that lets them extend their existing high skill level to new domains where they would otherwise be novices is very likely to be adopted.
BackBlast 6y ago
PWA installs are another way to get onto a system. It's less resource intensive as you leverage the browser already installed on the system. It doesn't work if you need extensive access to local hardware. But if you're mainly on the network anyway to operate, it's very frictionless and relatively lean. With my last app, the network asset bundle is about 2MB, uses only ~11 MB on disk on my Mac and ~25MB RAM when running.

burlesona 6y ago

Yeah, and I meant that with a wink then wrote at lengthy justification for that thinking, lol. Oh well, I rephrased to take out the jest. I don’t disagree with you about why people use Electron. There’s a positive feedback loop around ecosystem sizes. The bigger the platform the more devs use it the more tools they make the more libraries are made the more it’s the easiest way to do X the more applications are written for it the bigger the platform gets. Anything you can offer to a large group of developers that lets them extend their existing high skill level to new domains where they would otherwise be novices is very likely to be adopted.

BackBlast 6y ago

PWA installs are another way to get onto a system. It's less resource intensive as you leverage the browser already installed on the system. It doesn't work if you need extensive access to local hardware. But if you're mainly on the network anyway to operate, it's very frictionless and relatively lean. With my last app, the network asset bundle is about 2MB, uses only ~11 MB on disk on my Mac and ~25MB RAM when running.