Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by matthewmacleod on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:18AM (#14088676)

No, and that's fine. I don't think anyone is going to begrudge a small team the power of developing a 'desktop' application using cross-platform tools like that. It's great that the barrier to developing an application in that way is lowered.

But that doesn't excuse the abuse of that platform. Spotify used to have a pretty convincing native Mac app, which was spiked in favour of their current abomination, and I've watched performance plummet.

Using Electron as a cost-cutting measure is fine, but it's not good for user experience and it's OK to be honest about that.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by srssays on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:57AM (#14089277)

Electron is great for user experience. Compare to something like JetBrains' IDEs which are written in Java and are much less native feeling than Atom (and just as resource-hungry).

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by bitwize on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:15PM (#14089503)

But JetBrains's IDEs are a fair bit more powerful than Atom. The resource-hungriness is taken up by functionality, not UI.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by mateuszf on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:07PM (#14090079)

To be fair though, Java and Swing which JetBrains IDEs use are also not exactly native.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by douche on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:36PM (#14090437)

Comparing Atom and IntelliJ is like comparing a BB gun to a 155mm howitzer.

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