arcticwombat

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by arcticwombat 8y ago
It's not magic sauce, it's a counter-point to the "Electron gives you cross platform deployments" argument. Yes, there are many GUI toolkits, the LCL creates native applications while some others do not, but it's ce
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
FPC + Lazarus, single tool with cross-compilation. It's not like browsers all got together and agreed on a standard API, literally every browser does things differently from the others.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
The web browser is not the real competitor here, that's a web developer fallacy if ever I saw one. As soon as you move to the desktop, you're competing with the desktop toolsets. People comparing Electron to the browser is missi
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
I write native applications, cross platform (I generally make releases for Windows, Mac, and Linux), and cross-compiled using FPC + Lazarus. No trickery, no hidden browser windows, just normal native executables. Java also solves the cross-
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
How is that a selling point though? People using desktop toolsets never even have to think about that "problem" because it just doesn't exist when you're using the right tools. There are three types of tools for every jo
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
It sells the dream of using web developer skills on the desktop, for those who want to develop native apps but don't want to learn new tools/languages. Square peg, round hole. Electron just gives you a hammer to make it fit anyway
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Meh, I write cross platform applications, single code base, and compile to native executables on Windows, Linux, and Mac with no problem and no extra Chromium bloat. FreePascal + Lazarus.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Let's move away from hiding browsers in windows and pretending they're not browsers hiding in a window. FPC + Lazarus, native executables, cross platform.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Go to Udemy, type in "web development" and pick any course under $15 that includes the words "for beginners" in the title and has 4+ star ratings.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
No. But there IS a large amount of hyperbole surrounding it.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Congratulations. Another test and proof that the placebo effect is real. This has been done so many times in so many ways, there are better ways to spend research money at this point than to beat this proverbial dead horse.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
"No".
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
"Origin DNS Error" on the archive link.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Overly complicated, overly hyped, horrible syntax.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Simple, money. DNT is optional, you're "asking" to not be tracked. Google makes money off of tracking you, so it's not going to just up and not do that because you asked nicely.
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by arcticwombat 8y ago
Ah yes, Flutter, Google made it so it must be good :) I tried it out but it definitely didn't turn me into a fan.