Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Desktop Apps?

Re:Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Deskto... by pavlov on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @09:36AM (#14246188)

Yes, and I wish developers could make that choice more easily.

The Electron approach is fine for genuinely large applications. But I've seen many Electron-based Mac desktop apps where the UI has a handful of elements. The equivalent Cocoa app would be maybe 100 kB.

I understand that people won't learn Cocoa just for tiny UIs, so it would be really nice if there were a mostly Electron-compatible solution that would use the system web runtime which is already there (and probably already loaded in active memory).

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Deskto... by k__ on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @10:06AM (#14246388)

It's funny somehow.

They built a framework for, as you say, "genuinely large applications" but it seems to be so easy to use that it's used especially for small ones.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think Electron is good for building Deskto... by bbcbasic on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:11PM (#14250639)

And if you are building a large app you'd benefit from a statically typed language with better native data type support than JS.

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