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Understandably, as technologists we are in uproar at yet another Electron app due to the widely-accepted performance concerns many have with them. But if you do

by deanc 1y ago

Understandably, as technologists we are in uproar at yet another Electron app due to the widely-accepted performance concerns many have with them. But if you don't want to run this, you can always just run it in the browser as before. Nobody is forcing you to install it. I sometimes think we forget that Electron would have allowed them to ship this to customers super quickly, across all desktop platforms, and get a nice-looking application in to the hands of their customers (who probably have been requesting this for years).

eviks 1y ago
> Electron would have allowed them to ship this to customers super quickly So why didn't it? The company launched two decades ago
wiseowise 1y ago
> “We” (a couple of fanatics)
- Sammi 1y ago
  Internet comments are all kinda insufferable in this way, because most of what you get are complainers while the happy people stay silent. There must be a name for this phenomenon.
  - braebo 1y ago
    Yea, let’s complain about it!
pjmlp 1y ago
Somehow we used to do that in the middle of 16 bit home computer mess, even when it required writing everything in Assembly. Don't complain about Google taking over the Web, when everyone keeps packaging Chrome with their applications and calling it a native app.
- benbucksch 1y ago
  Back then, did we have an app that can do email and calendar, and sync that with our phone? Did that app work on all operating systems that were in use at that time? With a simple install? On DOS, Amiga, Apple, Acorn, Unix? The same app, with the same functionality? If not: Would you rather live in a world dominated by native Windows applications, written in C with Win32?
  - pjmlp 1y ago
    Yes, when the phones were based on Blackberry, Symbian, Windows CE / Pocket PC. Naturally before that there where no phones with Email to worry about. There were games available across all those platforms, which are a specific kind of apps. Wordperfect is good example of something available all over the place during the 1980-90's. Thankfully C isn't the only way to use Win32, as it was already not the case with Win16.
    - benbucksch 1y ago
      Which cross-platform email+calendar GUI app existed back then, which could sync with these phones, and works with feature-partity on all of Windows, Mac and Linux, and was not built with web technologies?

by deanc 1y ago

eviks 1y ago

> Electron would have allowed them to ship this to customers super quickly So why didn't it? The company launched two decades ago

wiseowise 1y ago

> “We” (a couple of fanatics)

Sammi 1y ago
Internet comments are all kinda insufferable in this way, because most of what you get are complainers while the happy people stay silent. There must be a name for this phenomenon.
- braebo 1y ago
  Yea, let’s complain about it!

pjmlp 1y ago

Somehow we used to do that in the middle of 16 bit home computer mess, even when it required writing everything in Assembly. Don't complain about Google taking over the Web, when everyone keeps packaging Chrome with their applications and calling it a native app.

benbucksch 1y ago
Back then, did we have an app that can do email and calendar, and sync that with our phone? Did that app work on all operating systems that were in use at that time? With a simple install? On DOS, Amiga, Apple, Acorn, Unix? The same app, with the same functionality? If not: Would you rather live in a world dominated by native Windows applications, written in C with Win32?
- pjmlp 1y ago
  Yes, when the phones were based on Blackberry, Symbian, Windows CE / Pocket PC. Naturally before that there where no phones with Email to worry about. There were games available across all those platforms, which are a specific kind of apps. Wordperfect is good example of something available all over the place during the 1980-90's. Thankfully C isn't the only way to use Win32, as it was already not the case with Win16.
  - benbucksch 1y ago
    Which cross-platform email+calendar GUI app existed back then, which could sync with these phones, and works with feature-partity on all of Windows, Mac and Linux, and was not built with web technologies?