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So like a modern day VB3 but built on Electron. Would be nice to have!
by MR4D 5y ago
So like a modern day VB3 but built on Electron. Would be nice to have!
- notRobot 5y agopreferably not electron :)
- MR4D 5y agoI get the hate for Electron, but to me, despite the issues, it's not going away. I think a better approach is to figure out how to make Electron more performant in the various OSes. I haven't gotten into the internals of Electron, so I'm not the one to reflect on the approach, but seeing some of the improvements that MSFT made with Edge over Chrome in memory usage gives me hope that this is achievable, even if it doesn't happen immediately. Back in the 1990's we faced a similar thing, where web "apps" were ugly and slow, and not as powerful as the desktop apps that many corporations had developed in C++ or VB or Delphi. Today of course, the situation is much different, and we use web apps all the time. I really truly believe that Electron (or perhaps a successor - like how VS Code superseded Atom) will not go away, and in the future we will be much happier with it.
- HWR_14 5y ago> back in the 1990's we faced a similar thing, where web "apps" were ugly and slow And when's the last time you loaded an app with the Java VM on the desktop, unless it was Eclipse and you were about to use it to write more Java?