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Re:Electron considered harmful by vvanders on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:24PM (#13032222)
> Not for the HN purists.

Is that necessarily a bad thing? I'll throw a great counter-example to you, Mattermost. It's a great open source project that uses Electron to build a client app for just about every single platform.

Have you maintained a cross-platform app for Windows, OSX, and all the various flavor of linux? I have, it's hell. You have compiler differences, ui semantic differences and a litany of per-platform quirks.

Does Electron solve every single use case? No. However in the cases where it makes sense it's a great tool.

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Re:Electron considered harmful by pjmlp on Thursday November 24, 2016 @03:05PM (#13032444)
I also have, and would keep on using Java, Qt, wxWidgets than bothering with Electron, and I do have my share of web projects.

Also for all the kids out there, Electron is the second coming of the MSHTML ActiveX engine.

I didn't like it then, surely don't like it now.

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Re:Electron considered harmful by mixedCase on Thursday November 24, 2016 @04:16PM (#13032820)
>Electron is the second coming of the MSHTML ActiveX engine.

Really? I've always thought of it as the "blinders-on dev's XULRunner".

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Re:Electron considered harmful by pjmlp on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:33AM (#13034925)
Well, MSHTML is older. :)
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