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> i’d bet that electron and it’s ecosystem exists strictly only because of the abundance of engineers proficient in javascript. electron absolutely did not sta

> i’d bet that electron and it’s ecosystem exists strictly only because of the abundance of engineers proficient in javascript. electron absolutely did not standardise UI. Bingo. We have a glut of developers who only really know web tech, and when they decide they want to do something for the desktop they just go with what they know instead of learning something different. The argument about portability that people make in support of Electron-based stuff doesn't hold up when you see that there exist cross-platform tools for other languages. At the end of the day, the tech world is crawling with JS developers who appear to be unmotivated to learn something other than JS (or one of its transpiled cousins).

klabb3 5y ago
> they decide they want to do something for the desktop they just go with what they know instead of learning something different Shouldn't the burden of proof be reversed? If the stack works, why relearn in a different stack? The HN crowd loves to shit on web developers for not being good enough even at their own domain, yet at the same time encourage them to learn new tech. Proficiency takes time. As for the environment itself, web has the best inspect/debugging experience by far, an extremely capable and flexible layout engine and accessibility built in. It's also not controlled by a company, and has ubiquitous platform support. Obviously there's a network effect, which to a large extent led to this situation. But it also makes sense to learn today. If I was advising a junior it'd be criminally myopic to suggest learning Qt instead of web.