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Sure, everyone wants to be old on the Internet. I hear these twenty somethings constantly claiming that they’re in their sixties cuz it’s cool. /s No, to toler

Sure, everyone wants to be old on the Internet. I hear these twenty somethings constantly claiming that they’re in their sixties cuz it’s cool. /s No, to tolerate something you need to have some measure of control over it in the first place. Given that you don’t have any control over Electron or other developers using it, you’re not actually tolerating anything. You have no choice in the matter. The only thing you could possibly do resembling tolerance would be to not comment on it... but you’re doing the opposite, even when nobody asked and in places you shouldn’t be. You’re essentially just sitting here sneering at the community based on your ideology and your comments are not interesting or even practical. Standard web applications that run in a browser are not an alternative and given that completely unreasonable suggestion I’ll just assume that this is satire. Good luck stemming the tide!

pjmlp 5y ago
To tolerate means having to endure using Electron based tools as part of job requirements, tools that have no place on privately owned computer systems. It isn't a satire, it is the only place for applications on systems I own, either full Web or native, period. On the systems I don't own, I tolerate Chrome packaged as "desktop" application.
- wayneftw 5y ago
  Chrome is and always has been a native desktop application. Putting the word desktop in quotes doesn’t change that. I thought the satire was the suggestion that standard web apps can replace a desktop apps.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    It is, for the purposes of seeing Web pages, not for wrapping a Website into a custom build of it.
    - wayneftw 5y ago
      It's open source. It's for the purpose of using it for whatever we want to use it for. People decide this, not some ivory tower of objectivity that doesn't exist anywhere except in the minds of purists. And it serves excellently as a framework for the desktop apps that use it. And that's why it's eating the market for purely native desktop apps. Oh and Microsoft bought and uses the whole kit because they want to add to Chrome's hegemony right? The small loud minority of HN complainers here should let them know that they're doing it all wrong. It's a whole 5 million lines of open source code - there's no way any other company but Google can maintain that! Brave doesn't exist either apparently.
      - pjmlp 5y ago
        It is only eating the market of GNU/Linux "desktops".
        wayneftw 5y ago
        Care to cite a source to back that up? Last I checked newer apps like Slack, Discord, VS Code and other market leaders use Electron to run on all platforms. I don't see a whole lot of new purely native desktop apps. In any case, I use a Linux desktop for work so I'm quite happy either way.

pjmlp 5y ago

To tolerate means having to endure using Electron based tools as part of job requirements, tools that have no place on privately owned computer systems. It isn't a satire, it is the only place for applications on systems I own, either full Web or native, period. On the systems I don't own, I tolerate Chrome packaged as "desktop" application.

wayneftw 5y ago
Chrome is and always has been a native desktop application. Putting the word desktop in quotes doesn’t change that. I thought the satire was the suggestion that standard web apps can replace a desktop apps.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  It is, for the purposes of seeing Web pages, not for wrapping a Website into a custom build of it.
  - wayneftw 5y ago
    It's open source. It's for the purpose of using it for whatever we want to use it for. People decide this, not some ivory tower of objectivity that doesn't exist anywhere except in the minds of purists. And it serves excellently as a framework for the desktop apps that use it. And that's why it's eating the market for purely native desktop apps. Oh and Microsoft bought and uses the whole kit because they want to add to Chrome's hegemony right? The small loud minority of HN complainers here should let them know that they're doing it all wrong. It's a whole 5 million lines of open source code - there's no way any other company but Google can maintain that! Brave doesn't exist either apparently.
    - pjmlp 5y ago
      It is only eating the market of GNU/Linux "desktops".
      - wayneftw 5y ago
        Care to cite a source to back that up? Last I checked newer apps like Slack, Discord, VS Code and other market leaders use Electron to run on all platforms. I don't see a whole lot of new purely native desktop apps. In any case, I use a Linux desktop for work so I'm quite happy either way.