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I’m sort of surprised it’s considered a good thing. Some of my favourite programs use electron, like visual studio code. I haven’t used Spotify though, so maybe

by devjab 3y ago

I’m sort of surprised it’s considered a good thing. Some of my favourite programs use electron, like visual studio code. I haven’t used Spotify though, so maybe that is one of the many electron apps that suck? I was very unimpressed by flutter when we PoC it at work, but that was years ago, so maybe it’s gotten better since.

piva00 3y ago
Spotify's desktop app has been pretty snappy for me, and it's been like that for many years across different machines.
NekkoDroid 3y ago
Spotify Desktop also doesn't exactly use Electron, but 1 layer below: CEF
- diggan 3y ago
  Also, they've used CEF since before Electron was even a thing (before Atom even).
- jimmydoe 3y ago
  Yes, and they are doing it better than Steam Client i think.
amomchilov 3y ago
VSCode couldn't support multiple windows until just recently, entirely because of a limitation from the early days of Electron. When "multiple windows" is a feature to be announced (as if weren't trivial on any native stack), you know it's a sad state is affairs.
- diggan 3y ago
  > VSCode couldn't support multiple windows until just recently, entirely because of a limitation from the early days of Electron. That sounds like Microsoft deflecting blame. You've been able to do multiple windows for a very long time in Electron, I remember being able to do so in 2019 at the very least, and the book "Electron in Action" (https://www.manning.com/books/electron-in-action https://www.manning.com/books/electron-in-action) even have a chapter dedicated to it, a book which was released in 2018.
  - tredre3 3y ago
    VSCode always could have multiple windows. You can open multiple projects and they all share the same process(es), so clearly Electron supports multiple windows. What it couldn't do, though, was to have a single workspace span multiple windows (ie "detach" tabs). Whether or not this was caused by an electron limitation or a design flaw in VSCode, I can't say. Though I find it hard to believe that it would have been impossible to implement had they really wanted to.
- badgersnake 3y ago
  Don’t understand all the fuss about VSCode. I’m sticking with neovim.

by devjab 3y ago

piva00 3y ago

Spotify's desktop app has been pretty snappy for me, and it's been like that for many years across different machines.

NekkoDroid 3y ago

Spotify Desktop also doesn't exactly use Electron, but 1 layer below: CEF

diggan 3y ago
Also, they've used CEF since before Electron was even a thing (before Atom even).
jimmydoe 3y ago
Yes, and they are doing it better than Steam Client i think.

amomchilov 3y ago

VSCode couldn't support multiple windows until just recently, entirely because of a limitation from the early days of Electron. When "multiple windows" is a feature to be announced (as if weren't trivial on any native stack), you know it's a sad state is affairs.

diggan 3y ago
> VSCode couldn't support multiple windows until just recently, entirely because of a limitation from the early days of Electron. That sounds like Microsoft deflecting blame. You've been able to do multiple windows for a very long time in Electron, I remember being able to do so in 2019 at the very least, and the book "Electron in Action" (https://www.manning.com/books/electron-in-action https://www.manning.com/books/electron-in-action) even have a chapter dedicated to it, a book which was released in 2018.
- tredre3 3y ago
  VSCode always could have multiple windows. You can open multiple projects and they all share the same process(es), so clearly Electron supports multiple windows. What it couldn't do, though, was to have a single workspace span multiple windows (ie "detach" tabs). Whether or not this was caused by an electron limitation or a design flaw in VSCode, I can't say. Though I find it hard to believe that it would have been impossible to implement had they really wanted to.
badgersnake 3y ago
Don’t understand all the fuss about VSCode. I’m sticking with neovim.