Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by rimliu on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:06AM
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And it is amazing to see how many bad reinventions of the wheel happens because of this.
People claiming that writing electron app is 10x faster than native have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. The only think web-based tech will give you is ability to push out raw cross-platform prototype. Now try to polish that to the acceptable quality across the platforms and the many wins start to turn into loses.
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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by joshstrange on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:25AM
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I am a web developer, I know that might be a dirty title in some circle but I really don't care. There are countless amazing things built on technology that people hate for whatever reason. PHP, JavaScript, and even Flash comes to mind. Guess what wins in the end? The thing that gets the job done quickest and easiest. It's one thing I really dislike about HN, the need to let everyone else know how terrible their decisions are because they didn't go as low level as the person posting the comment. "Oh you used PHP? Real programmers use C++" "Oh you used C++? Real programmers use C" "Oh you used C? Real programmers use assembly" "Oh you used assembly on a CPU? Real programmers design and build their own FPGA's for their code". Nothing is forcing you to use things built in electron so if it's so terrible then don't use it and move on with your life.
> Real programmers design and build their own FPGA's for their code...
/I don't disagree with you one bit...
Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by BatFastard on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @04:26PM
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I LOVE that!
I used to be one of the real programmers, now I program in Flash, strange...