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Electron is huge. Wouldn't use anything else anymore these days, unless it absolutely needs to be native. JavaScript in 2021 also somehow turns out to be surpri
by sarsway 5y ago
Electron is huge. Wouldn't use anything else anymore these days, unless it absolutely needs to be native. JavaScript in 2021 also somehow turns out to be surprisingly usable. The ecosystem has really matured and people aren't chasing the latest hot new thing every 2 weeks anymore, but things kinda settled a bit.
- dandigangi 5y agoI'm curious what you mean by "surprisingly usable" specifically.
- sarsway 5y agoThis is just my subjective experience, but when I was first getting into node 6 years or so ago, it was pretty wild. Libraries would constantly make breaking changes, you couldn't count on things working for more then a month. JS is very expressive, and people happily did crazy things with it, like write entire frameworks based around generator functions. TypeScript promised some sanity, but usually led to even more headaches, due to lack standardized tooling, ecosystem support, random errors and so on. Sooner or later every codebase seemed to be doomed to become an unmaintainable mess. But now it's a lot better. There's more consensus on what should be used, and most frameworks seem somewhat stable. Tooling is straightforward, in part thanks to VSCode I guess. Things like ESLint, JSHint are now standard. Altogether it feels more robust.
- 0des 5y ago> Libraries would constantly make breaking changes, you couldn't count on things working for more then a month This hasn't changed.