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Now you are moving the goal posts to "web as a platform". Web as a platform is not what you originally said and "web as a platform" is done well with web pages.
by CyberDildonics 5y ago
Now you are moving the goal posts to "web as a platform". Web as a platform is not what you originally said and "web as a platform" is done well with web pages.
People talk about electron being 'the only way to create cross platform apps' and ignore fltk, juce, qt, gtk, wxWidgets, tk and a whole host of other solutions, not to mention making a local webserver, opengl guis etc.
When someone only knows javascript they might want to work with electron, but no one who is going to use that software wishes it was made in electron. That's the bottom line, people don't want it, it is a selfish decision that creates terrible interactivity and grossly bloated software.
- handrous 5y agoI'm 100% convinced the appeal of Electron is that it makes chasing the latest UI trends month-to-month as easy on the desktop as it is on the web. Designers and businesses (and lots of developers) consider this essential, these days, for whatever reason. The above (yes, including the business side) will all complain about how a real desktop program using built-in or otherwise sane-and-stable GUI elements that haven't changed for 5 years looks too "old".
- postalrat 5y agoHow many popular desktop apps use anything resembling native GUI elements? Not browsers, not photo editors, not games, not many chat applications. Certainly there must be some big ones that do right?
- CyberDildonics 5y agoNow you are moving the goal posts again from 'no other way to do cross platform apps' to 'what uses native GUI elements'. The dozen cross platform libraries that have been around for multiple decades are all 100 times faster than the electron, that's the point.
- postalrat 5y agoI didn't move any goal posts. Here I'm responding to a different comment. This time regarding gui elements and user experience.