Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section

Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web... by oneweekwonder on Thursday December 07, 2017 @11:26AM (#15871410)

> who needs the low level functionality will end up with a native app

All please note. Electron is not a native app. It is a horrible hack that everybody use because it is easy.

Hybrid apps will always suck! ~ <3 hobbyist hybrid gamedev with client side js crypto mining on his mind }:‑)

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Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web... by dragonwriter on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:20PM (#15871845)

> All please note. Electron is not a native app.

Electron is an extremely heavyweight native app frsmework, not a native app, but Electron apps are (bloated, sure) native apps.

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Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web... by 5ilv3r on Thursday December 07, 2017 @01:23PM (#15872574)

Native means it uses the os rendering engine and widgets. Electron is not that. I don't know when web devs decided they could put a website in a box and call it native, but it's not very nice.

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Re:Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web... by drvortex on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:02PM (#15929159)

By that logic, GTK/Qt, basically any cross platform GUI library etc. is not 'native'.

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