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Imagine if WINE had become the defacto cross platform standard, instead of Electron. Or some modernizing shim on top of it. The amount of memory and CPU we cou
by tambourine_man 4y ago
Imagine if WINE had become the defacto cross platform standard, instead of Electron. Or some modernizing shim on top of it.
The amount of memory and CPU we could have saved.
- flatiron 4y agoWine doesn’t help you on iOS or the web. It could never have been as cross platform as a browser
- eurasiantiger 4y agoBoxedWine would like to disagree.
- ape4 4y agoMaybe its not too late
- tambourine_man 4y agoYeah, I though about mobile as soon as I hit “add comment”. Still, there must be a better way. I'm rooting for all the lighter weight alternatives.
- saagarjha 4y agoYou're not trying hard enough.
- augusto-moura 4y agoI truly believe that the success of Electron is not limited to only being cross-platform. It is a very compelling motivation, really. But I think one of the key aspects is that the HTML/CSS/JS ecosystem is so huge for building UIs that is a lot simpler than to rely on the classic UI desktop frameworks
- tambourine_man 4y agoYou’re correct. We need to solve the resource intensive issue while still allowing people to write apps with a web stack