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The perception is that the pro-Electron group is made up of all the people writing the software being discussed and therefore getting most of the benefits of th

The perception is that the pro-Electron group is made up of all the people writing the software being discussed and therefore getting most of the benefits of their choice, while the anti-Electron group is made up of all the people criticizing it for having to put up with all the drawbacks for the end-user (and setting aside the fact that the software may not exist at all if not for those pro-Electron benefits). However, since lots of software is still being written in Electron and... essentially none of the criticisms and drawbacks of doing so have been addressed, the anti-Electron group feels like they're being ignored. Because they are. So when they make posts about feeling ignored or complaining about having to repeat the same criticisms over and over without any improvement, that's because that's what's happening. The anti-Electron people are not saying that nobody agrees with them. They're complaining that their arguments are clearly falling on deaf ears.

somewhatbetter 5y ago
>essentially none of the criticisms and drawbacks of doing so have been addressed, the anti-Electron group feels like they're being ignored I was told there is a "Hit a programer, they will know why did they got it" group and they basically waiting for the employes at the HQs, following them to the parking lots / train stations and beating the living sht out of them, just because their profession is programer. Maybe if this gets mainstream we will see change in the future.
detaro 5y ago
You also see non-devs saying Electron is fine, and if the complaints were considered is not something you can really tell. Few people deciding against Electron are going to loudly broadcast that "we were thinking about Electron", and if you consider it and decide it's worth it for you despite downsides, well, you are the "bad guy"(TM) anyways.
acomjean 5y ago
I suspect there is hope from the electron developers that somehow the platform will start getting less resource intensive. App developers want their user to have a good experience (I'm guessing). But it isn't great with electron. But its fund one team or fund 3 ui teams (Windows, Mac, Linux) and hope testing gets them all in sync. Unfortunately there isn't a great cross-platform solution (qt?) that makes everyone happy (or at least not furious).

somewhatbetter 5y ago

>essentially none of the criticisms and drawbacks of doing so have been addressed, the anti-Electron group feels like they're being ignored I was told there is a "Hit a programer, they will know why did they got it" group and they basically waiting for the employes at the HQs, following them to the parking lots / train stations and beating the living sht out of them, just because their profession is programer. Maybe if this gets mainstream we will see change in the future.

detaro 5y ago

You also see non-devs saying Electron is fine, and if the complaints were considered is not something you can really tell. Few people deciding against Electron are going to loudly broadcast that "we were thinking about Electron", and if you consider it and decide it's worth it for you despite downsides, well, you are the "bad guy"(TM) anyways.

acomjean 5y ago

I suspect there is hope from the electron developers that somehow the platform will start getting less resource intensive. App developers want their user to have a good experience (I'm guessing). But it isn't great with electron. But its fund one team or fund 3 ui teams (Windows, Mac, Linux) and hope testing gets them all in sync. Unfortunately there isn't a great cross-platform solution (qt?) that makes everyone happy (or at least not furious).