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That was quite late in the game, though. Kind of like closing the barn doors after the horses have already bolted.
by cosmic_cheese 2y ago
That was quite late in the game, though. Kind of like closing the barn doors after the horses have already bolted.
- tomnipotent 2y agoIt was released in 2016, only two years after Atom and Slack and a year after VSCode. Not sure I'd call that late.
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoBy that point Electron had gained too much momentum and public mindshare to compete with without a big marketing push and flagship project at least as significant as Atom and VSCode were. Positron never got either.
- tomnipotent 2y agoElectron apps were popular, not Electron itself. Even now there are only 4-5 dozen popular apps using it, while I probably run across that number of Qt/GTK apps a month. It's a sort of weird dichotomy it finds itself it.