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Electron is an established technology, offers acceptable performance for most users and doesn't - for the most part - require specific technical skills. You bas
by trobor 3y ago
Electron is an established technology, offers acceptable performance for most users and doesn't - for the most part - require specific technical skills.
You basically webdev with it and have a native looking app.
Those could - but don't have to be - valid arguments for using it while still retaining self respect, e.g. making an informed choice on what is best for the project one is working on.
- dylan604 3y agoIs app development only a 2 party system: native vs Electron? You seem to imply that it is. I disagree.
- coldtea 3y ago>You basically webdev with it and have a native looking app. That's a description of the problem.
- sockgrant 3y agoIt’s also a description of why native wasn’t chosen from the get go. This thread is people who ship products vs people who ship engineering.
- coldtea 3y agoThis thread is people who ship BS products, that the rest of the population is then stuck with using, and which hold the practice decades back (not to mention being bad for the environment).
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- alpaca128 3y ago> offers acceptable performance for most users Most users accept it because they have no better choice. If an app is terribly slow but a lot of online communities and friends use it, what are they gonna do, just not interact with others? You want to play recent Nintendo games but don't want to regularly replace the controllers due to an unfixed issue that affects roughly 50 million people and has a perfectly working solution for over 20 years? Too bad. But I guess Nintendo calls it acceptable for most users because it's not quite bad enough that people stop using a product they paid for.
- satvikpendem 3y agoVote with your wallet or conscience, and don't buy or use it. This null choice is always conveniently missing when people say there is no "better choice." The fact that people continue to do so means there is at least some value in the product as it is. Therefore, it is acceptable to most people, or otherwise they wouldn't continue to use it.
- Eisenstein 3y ago'Vote with your wallet' is like 'recycle if you want to save the planet'. It is a platitude. This is why we have regulations.
- satvikpendem 3y agoYes, try regulating companies to not use Electron apps and see where that takes you. Regulation is generally reserved for egregious examples of corporate abuse, not using Electron or not. Now if there was a regulation for being able to choose client apps and have interoperability, like the EU is doing, then that's something I can get behind.
- Eisenstein 3y agoMy comment was not about electron, it was about your platitude.