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They do and and they did. You just don't like that they used the browser in both places.

by horsawlarway 2y ago

pjmlp 2y ago
My computer already has an browser installed, I am not a browser collector.
- horsawlarway 2y ago
  Might be better if you were, though. Personally - I collect quite a few for different things. I almost always have at least chrome, firefox, ungoogled-chromium, and - recently - ladybird installed. Not to mention a couple different chromium versions for various electron apps (slack, discord, etcher, bitwarden, vscode, postman, etc). Different browsers do different things well, and electron does the "desktop app" niche better than the others right now. In the same way that ladybird does the "not tracked by corporations" part, and firefox does the "still supports manifest v2 extensions" part. You can complain all you'd like (and I recognize you from other places hating on electron) and it's fine, but it doesn't change incentive structures for the folks deploying these, and as a full time linux user... I am SO fucking happy to have all the BS apps my company requires "just work" on my computers because of electron. If you don't want to use software developed with Electron... more power to ya. Go make that choice. Leave the rest of us out of it. From my side... it'd be great if we can make electron suck less (and trust me, I definitely agree that we can), but right now... it's still a pretty huge win.
  - pjmlp 2y ago
    Only one Electron app is tolerated on my computer, VSCode, and that is because for some stuff that is the only place I get plugins for, and that is about it. Everything else, if there is a Web app, then I use the browser, no need to ship it alongside every single application out there. It is like those garbage mobile apps, that are exactly the same website that I can access via the Webbrowser, packaged inside a "native" app. And I say this as someone that works primarly in distributed systems and Web.
    - jay_kyburz 2y ago
      I don't like VSCode, but I wanted to agree that I use Discord and Slack in a browser tab and see very little reason to run them in their own exe.
      - johnisgood 2y ago
        Pretty much this.

They do and and they did. You just don't like that they used the browser in both places.

pjmlp 2y ago

My computer already has an browser installed, I am not a browser collector.

horsawlarway 2y ago
Might be better if you were, though. Personally - I collect quite a few for different things. I almost always have at least chrome, firefox, ungoogled-chromium, and - recently - ladybird installed. Not to mention a couple different chromium versions for various electron apps (slack, discord, etcher, bitwarden, vscode, postman, etc). Different browsers do different things well, and electron does the "desktop app" niche better than the others right now. In the same way that ladybird does the "not tracked by corporations" part, and firefox does the "still supports manifest v2 extensions" part. You can complain all you'd like (and I recognize you from other places hating on electron) and it's fine, but it doesn't change incentive structures for the folks deploying these, and as a full time linux user... I am SO fucking happy to have all the BS apps my company requires "just work" on my computers because of electron. If you don't want to use software developed with Electron... more power to ya. Go make that choice. Leave the rest of us out of it. From my side... it'd be great if we can make electron suck less (and trust me, I definitely agree that we can), but right now... it's still a pretty huge win.
- pjmlp 2y ago
  Only one Electron app is tolerated on my computer, VSCode, and that is because for some stuff that is the only place I get plugins for, and that is about it. Everything else, if there is a Web app, then I use the browser, no need to ship it alongside every single application out there. It is like those garbage mobile apps, that are exactly the same website that I can access via the Webbrowser, packaged inside a "native" app. And I say this as someone that works primarly in distributed systems and Web.
  - jay_kyburz 2y ago
    I don't like VSCode, but I wanted to agree that I use Discord and Slack in a browser tab and see very little reason to run them in their own exe.
    - johnisgood 2y ago
      Pretty much this.