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> 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 s

> 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.