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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by rootlocus on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:02PM (#16981541)
The way I see it, without the comfort of using Electron, many apps would simply not exist, because nobody would invest the considerably larger) time and effort.

So it's not electron vs native, it's electron vs nothing.

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Re:I've spent the last two years building a new email client by rebeccaskinner on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @06:09PM (#16981590)
Given the choice I'll take the "nothing" option. Electron is gaining momentum and things that would have been written in a reasonable native framework are going to get sucked into it's ecosystem and we're all going to be worse off.
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