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Re:Announcing GitHub Desktop Beta by lol768 on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @12:50PM (#14360270)
> In this thread you'll find many native app developers who are dismissing Electron because they feel threatened.

That's an interesting claim to make, what makes you think that a lot of those who are upset by this decision are not just users who have tried Electron applications and found the UX poor? Why are they feeling 'threatened' and not just frustrated with this growing trend?

I'm not a native app developer in the slightest sense, I do mostly web work (server-side MVC mostly, but also a lot of frontend work) and enjoy working on security related to that.

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Re:Announcing GitHub Desktop Beta by electroner on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:00PM (#14360372)
Poor UX is an implementation problem, not an Electron problem. The popularity of well-built apps like Slack, Atom, and VSCode would seem to indicate many, many people have no problem with the UX.
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