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Re:Electron considered harmful by nailer on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:39PM (#13031545)
> For the price of 200 extra MiB of disk space and an entire Chromium process in RAM and on your CPU, you get a less capable GUI that saves you from having to type the -ss and -t flags yourself.

Cool. I remember when Handbrake first came out, and 'make video go on iPod' went from some long winder research into ffmpeg flags to clicking a button that says 'output for iPod' [1]. This sounds similarly timesaving.

[1]. yes, iPod. Showing my age.

Re:Electron considered harmful by q3k on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:57PM (#13031666)
>[1]. yes, iPod. Showing my age.

That was, what, 9 years ago? I realize it's an eternity in the average JS framework lifecycle timeframe, but come on.