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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by Touche on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:08PM (#14091365)
The comment I was responding to was:

> Yeah, but until Electron and they like, we seldom shipped desktop apps in anything than C, C++, Delphi etc even after all those decades.

So things aren't any different than before. We've just replaced non C/C++ abstractions that were written by the platform-owner company to non C/C++ abstractions that are written by open source projects.

This seems pretty much in line with the general industry trend towards the adoption of open-source software.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by coldtea on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @06:43AM (#14096409)
>So things aren't any different than before. We've just replaced non C/C++ abstractions that were written by the platform-owner company to non C/C++ abstractions that are written by open source projects.

This statement doesn't even parse.

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