Re:Electron considered harmful
by seanwilson on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:35PM
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> For the love of God, learn something else. Learn how to use GTK or Qt. Maybe Xwt is more up your alley. How about GNOME’s Vala thing? Learn another programming language. Learn Python or C/C++ or C#.
All of this takes time. If you want to launch an app on multiple platforms, Electron is a very time efficient way to do this. Obviously native apps for every platform would be ideal but not everyone has the resources for that.
> Let me be clear about this: JavaScript sucks. It’s not the worst, but it’s also not by any means good. ES6 is a really great step forward and I’m thrilled about how much easier it’s going to be to write JavaScript, but it’s still JavaScript underneath the syntactic sugar.
Use something like Typescript or Flow then. The above is like saying C++ sucks because assembly is a bad language to code in.
All of this takes time. If you want to launch an app on multiple platforms, Electron is a very time efficient way to do this. Obviously native apps for every platform would be ideal but not everyone has the resources for that.
> Let me be clear about this: JavaScript sucks. It’s not the worst, but it’s also not by any means good. ES6 is a really great step forward and I’m thrilled about how much easier it’s going to be to write JavaScript, but it’s still JavaScript underneath the syntactic sugar.
Use something like Typescript or Flow then. The above is like saying C++ sucks because assembly is a bad language to code in.