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> people ship electron because it works the same across different OSs Why does Microsoft build the very VisualStudio installer with Electron then? To me it se
by qwerty456127 2y ago
> people ship electron because it works the same across different OSs
Why does Microsoft build the very VisualStudio installer with Electron then?
To me it seems companies ship electron because it's easy to hire a JavaScript developer.
- com2kid 2y ago> Why does Microsoft build the very VisualStudio installer with Electron then? > To me it seems companies ship electron because it's easy to hire a JavaScript developer. When I worked at Microsoft, one team I was on, very ironically, had a really hard time finding Windows developers. We actually resorted to drawing straws to see who on the team would have to learn native Windows development! IMHO a large part of the problem is that native Windows development is a career dead end, unless you work at Microsoft, there are relatively few well paying jobs for what is now a niche skillset.
- pjmlp 2y agoUnless one works for the games industry, does IT at big corp, embedded devices programming.
- saagarjha 2y agoNone of which are particularly sexy, unfortunately.
- com2kid 2y agoGames pays badly, big corp IT pays badly, and unfortunately despite the difficulty, embedded tends to pays poorly unless you are at one of the big tech companies.
- pjmlp 2y agoAnd yet the reason why they pay badly is the endless queue of people trying to get one of those jobs.
- pjmlp 2y agoVisual Studio installer uses WPF. They did indeed try to use Electron, and the backslash was big enough they went back to WPF.