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Re:Electron considered harmful by dagw on Friday November 25, 2016 @09:41AM (#13036986)
Doing something quick and dirty in electron takes N hours. Doing a 'proper' cross platform native app the right way takes N+P hours. If people are willing to pay for those extra P hours then I'd be more than happy to do things the 'right' way. However almost nobody is.

I've spent a lot of time on team web-apps-suck, and in many ways I'm still a casual fan. But the truth is I can go from zero to good enough much faster with web apps than anything else, and unfortunately most people only want to pay for good enough.

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Re:Electron considered harmful by groovy2shoes on Thursday December 01, 2016 @01:42AM (#13077663)
> Doing something quick and dirty in electron takes N hours. Doing a 'proper' cross platform native app the right way takes N+P hours.

Source?

Really, I'm not at all convinced that whipping up an Electron app is inherently quicker than whipping up a native app. Especially when we have robust, mature RAD tools for native toolkits, and things like Qt Quick, WPF, and Java FX let you go the whole "write your GUI in some markup language" route, if that's your bag.

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