Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
by Lagged2Death on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:23AM
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People are making all kinds of great new apps, and more often than not, they come out on all three platforms. People are excited about the Desktop again...
You could have expressed pretty much the same sentiment about Java ~20 years ago. The trade-offs (high resource consumption, additional complexity, but less demanding of developer time) and even the fundamentals of the approach (an additional abstraction layer that works as a VM, APIs oriented around all the latest thinking) were also very similar.
Java is used for a lot of things, but mostly not as the basis of mass-market cross-platform applications the way it was originally intended.
You could have expressed pretty much the same sentiment about Java ~20 years ago. The trade-offs (high resource consumption, additional complexity, but less demanding of developer time) and even the fundamentals of the approach (an additional abstraction layer that works as a VM, APIs oriented around all the latest thinking) were also very similar.
Java is used for a lot of things, but mostly not as the basis of mass-market cross-platform applications the way it was originally intended.