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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 5 years,chances are you have used an Electron-based application at least once in your life. Wha
by TekMol 5y ago
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for
the past 5 years,chances are you have used
an Electron-based application at least once
in your life.
What does it mean to "live under a rock"?
I have never used an Electron app because all my needs are covered by termial applications, Firefox, LibreOffice and Gimp.
Which rock do I live under?
- zarzavat 5y ago> Which rock do I live under? Linux, apparently.
- yepthatsreality 5y agoNone of the listed software is exclusive to Linux.
- bern4444 5y agoSome common and widely used electron applications are VSCode, Spotify, and Slack. I think Microsoft teams might also be electron based but I'm not sure. There are many more as well.
- TekMol 5y agoSure. But I don't use those.
- omarhaneef 5y agoHave you used any of them "at least once in your life"?
- doctor_lollipop 5y agoNot the OP, but no, I have not. Nor do I intend to. Ever.
- omarhaneef 5y agoI don't have a dog in this fight but I think it is safe to say it is rare to never have used it, if only out of curiosity.
- TekMol 5y agoNo
- OldTimeCoffee 5y agoI believe Teams just switched to Edge WebView instead of Electron. The point remains that native applications are starting to only be specialty applications like games, CAD/CAM, Creative Suite, etc where you need a lot of access to compute power.
- neoberg 5y agoI think we will see more web based versions of those speciality applications. There is already an Autocad running in browser.
- OldTimeCoffee 5y agoYou know, I forgot about WebGPU. If you have GPU Compute support I could see a full featured web version being technically possible. AutoCAD Web is really limited compared to the native application. The Web is just fulfilling Java's 'Write Once Run Everywhere' promise.
- hpb42 5y agoIsn't Spotify for Linux in C++ with GTK? $ ldd /usr/bin/spotify | grep gtk libgtk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 (0x00007f06b545d000) How do I check if it is an electron app?
- hcjrmemeld 5y agoYou are so decadent, using bloated memory hogs like Firefox and LibreOffice. What's wrong with lynx, bc or GraphicsMagick? Why do you feel the need to use graphical applications? They make no sense when you can do everything in a terminal.
- johnchristopher 5y agoKeyword being "chances".
- guilhas 5y agoExactly, a most electron apps work on the browser or have good non electron alternative I have tried some but that's about it
- caconym_ 5y ago> What does it mean to "live under a rock"? "Living under a rock" is an idiom used to describe one who is/has been cut off from the mainstream. > Which rock do I live under? The rock of literally never having used any of the ubiquitous communications tools built on Electron (Discord, Slack, Teams off the top of my head), or any of the very popular^[1] code editors built on it, or any of the countless other applications that use it. I'm sure you get your work done just fine, and this is not a value judgment. It's just an observation that, at least in the set of people likely to read (or "read") this article, you are a member of a (presumably) small and ever-shrinking class. Electron is everywhere. ^[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-popular-technologies-integrated-development-environment https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-most-...