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A lot of people hate electron but frankly, it's the future of desktop applications and probably the future of mobile applications. The browser is currently the
by friedman23 5y ago
A lot of people hate electron but frankly, it's the future of desktop applications and probably the future of mobile applications. The browser is currently the best implementation of a true cross platform framework. People complain about nebulous concepts like "bloat" but I think fragmentation across platforms is just as if not more harmful and bad. For mobile for example, I exclusively build native iOS apps because the ecosystem is superior and I simply do not have the bandwidth as an individual to maintain software for 3 unique platforms (web, iOS, and Android) so I just don't build Android apps because the android market is just not valuable.
Also as a user of many electron based apps, I currently use apple silicon native electron apps on my m1 macbook air and they are extremely snappy with only 16gb of ram (go download the canary version of discord which is compiled to apple silicon if you want to see the difference). If there is one entity that I'm truly angry at it is intel for completely mishandling and holding back the desktop processor ecosystem for the past decade (or longer).