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Re:Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler by rickycook on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:15PM (#16172538)
drawing the parallel between electron and gui toolkits probably isn’t right. i think there are lots of things at play here. just for starters:

- abstracts lots of file handling

- js is much easier than most languages to pick up and learn

- js has a large dev base because of the web

- people are well versed in coding for the web, and adding a “native” layer on top of that is actually quite easy

- cross platform c/c++ in general is not so simple even without the GUI

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