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> Luckily there seems to be a push for fully native. Really? I thought there was a push for Electron/Chromium everywhere (which seems comparable or worse than
by jabbany 5y ago
> Luckily there seems to be a push for fully native.
Really? I thought there was a push for Electron/Chromium everywhere (which seems comparable or worse than desktop Java...)
- danuker 5y agoI think Electron is neither here nor there. It is the "stroad" of software distribution: the sluggishness and poor performance of a web interface, coupled with the difficulty to upgrade of a desktop package. Personally I push for either native apps or web apps, to regain at least one of the benefits lost by packaging web apps.
- ihateolives 5y ago> coupled with the difficulty to upgrade of a desktop package Huh? Two Electron apps that I use are Github Desktop and VSC. Neither is sluggish and both have streamlined automatic updates.
- danuker 5y ago> streamlined automatic updates Sure, from the user's perspective. But from the provider's perspective, there is a lot of infrastructure needed to reliably and automatically update on various platforms. Compiling files per-platform, hosting them securely, checking checksums, binary self-replacement, settings migration for many possible settings... Compare with deploying the server code, migration only for one data set (the one on the server), and then hitting refresh in a web browser.