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I think you're benefiting from the coincidence that developers (managers?) chose Electron + 1 code base and void of well-written apps due to low market share. S
by cosmotic 5y ago
I think you're benefiting from the coincidence that developers (managers?) chose Electron + 1 code base and void of well-written apps due to low market share. Sure, an electron app is better than a broken side project. But a fully native linux app would handily beat the electron app.
If there were a larger market share, there would be more well-written native apps. If devs focused on users, the easily-ported mediocre electron app wouldn't exist.
- rochak 5y agoI would rather have a slow memory hogging app than no app at all.
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- Zababa 5y agoIt's not a coincidence, Electron is here because some people don't like web apps. Managers chose web apps.
- cosmotic 5y agoBut the electron app IS a web app and has all the flaws of a web app, plus one more flaw: it doesn't share memory with the browser even though it's the same code (more or less). I believe their are some smaller electron-like projects that are lighter weight, though you're still stuck with a non-native web app in a shell.
- Zababa 5y agoIt is a web app for us developers, but for most people it's not really since they can install it and use it like a native app.