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So if they released a native desktop app with fewer features, do you think it’d be worth it? Or do you think they shouldn’t write any apps? Electron is the mos

So if they released a native desktop app with fewer features, do you think it’d be worth it? Or do you think they shouldn’t write any apps? Electron is the most cost effective, least wasteful way to produce a desktop app on all 3 OSes. They’re providing a feature to people who wanted it, while wasting less money from ungrateful customers like yourself who don’t care. It’d cost much more to build & maintain a native desktop app when electron works just fine.

denkmoon 1y ago
The question is why is a desktop app needed in the first place? Is it worth the effort for the number of people who want it, given they can achieve the same thing with zero effort from the developer by pressing a few buttons? What special feature is achieved here? You can use fastmail offline using the browser, you can make sites into "apps" for your taskbar or dock in windows and macos (are we making electron apps for linux hyprland ricers?), and you can set the fastmail website as the default email client. The audience here seems to be "people who want to use the fastmail webmail client but don't want to use it in their regular web browser and don't know how to achieve that with the built in tools"? Fastmail are an awesome developer, JMAP is great, their mobile apps are great and actually offer some reason to exist, and I like their ethos as far as I can tell. None of this detracts from the fact making an electron app that does nothing other than shell a website, in nearly every case, is a waste of time.