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Write once run everywhere has really become a reality with Electron in a practical sense that wasn’t ever quite as real before. A lot of mudslinging about perf

• silisili 5y ago
  Would you not consider Java as write once run anywhere? I mean, that was basically its whole selling point. I feel its popularity is more to do with one stack everywhere, than say, some groundbreaking tech idea. All that aside, I must agree. Electron, however you view it, has greatly boosted linux compat among popular applications.
  • reasonabl_human 5y ago
    One stack everywhere is not a ground breaking concept since Java did it from an architecture stand point, but Electron is doing it in a new and unique way: one stack across across desktop, web, mobile - device classes instead of just architecture / OS. Same concept applied differently as I see it.
  • antod 5y ago
    > Would you not consider Java as write once run anywhere? I mean, that was basically its whole selling point. No, frankly. Java GUI apps on Linux back in the day were often a complete disaster unless it was an open source app with a large Linux dev base. GUI apps had to be written for and tested on all the various platforms they were going to run on. You could probably run simple apps using the oldest lowest common denominator graphics toolkits working without specific support, but those old toolkits were as clunky and ugly as hell. Electron is far more out of the box on Linux than Java ever was.