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Because developers need to eat, this should not be hard to understand. It is cheaper and faster to build an Electron app and have it immediately work cross plat

Because developers need to eat, this should not be hard to understand. It is cheaper and faster to build an Electron app and have it immediately work cross platform, than to build several native apps just to please some random internet purist.

pdntspa 3y ago
And if that eating is already covered? To say nothing of QT, Avalonia, Uno, GTK, and others. Many of those manage to figure out cross-platform with native controls. But no, we have to use electron because she can throw cheap oversaturated webdevs at the problem and call it a day.
- phailhaus 3y ago
  Because it's easier. That's it. You can argue about "equivalent alternatives" until you're blue in the face, but you're wrong. It's just easier for many devs to use Electron than whatever you just spouted, and that's why it's more popular. You are acting like Principal Skinner going "No, it is the children who are wrong." What I can't understand is, why do you care so much?
  - pdntspa 3y ago
    Why do you care about why I care so much? I have my reasons. I have outlined them. They are much better than anyone else's reasons, by my standard, and I am going to stick to them. Why are you arguing such conformist bullshit?
johnnyworker 3y ago
It's even easier to make a 3 screenshot tutorial to explain how to do it in Avidemux. Slightly more work would be to fork Avidemux and rip out everything but the lossless cutting. But then you'd at least have a tool worth calling it that. It's not a one-way street, either. Even just putting a link in front of me is asking for my attention. I then read the description, which doesn't mention that it's giant and totally pointless if you use Avidemux, and have to click to the releases page to realize yes, it's another one of these that seem to quickly become the norm, and that I know won't be maintained in 5 years. But hey, I don't have anything better to do with my time, surely!

pdntspa 3y ago

And if that eating is already covered? To say nothing of QT, Avalonia, Uno, GTK, and others. Many of those manage to figure out cross-platform with native controls. But no, we have to use electron because she can throw cheap oversaturated webdevs at the problem and call it a day.

phailhaus 3y ago
Because it's easier. That's it. You can argue about "equivalent alternatives" until you're blue in the face, but you're wrong. It's just easier for many devs to use Electron than whatever you just spouted, and that's why it's more popular. You are acting like Principal Skinner going "No, it is the children who are wrong." What I can't understand is, why do you care so much?
- pdntspa 3y ago
  Why do you care about why I care so much? I have my reasons. I have outlined them. They are much better than anyone else's reasons, by my standard, and I am going to stick to them. Why are you arguing such conformist bullshit?

johnnyworker 3y ago

It's even easier to make a 3 screenshot tutorial to explain how to do it in Avidemux. Slightly more work would be to fork Avidemux and rip out everything but the lossless cutting. But then you'd at least have a tool worth calling it that. It's not a one-way street, either. Even just putting a link in front of me is asking for my attention. I then read the description, which doesn't mention that it's giant and totally pointless if you use Avidemux, and have to click to the releases page to realize yes, it's another one of these that seem to quickly become the norm, and that I know won't be maintained in 5 years. But hey, I don't have anything better to do with my time, surely!