Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps?

Re:Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps? by MattyMc on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:20PM (#17007229)

I've built a few Electron apps now, one of which I use quite a bit to track ticket prices in secondary markets.

It's a great prototyping environment, and people have built businesses around Electron apps (VSCode is built on Electron, I believe). The apps I've built are big, kinda slow, and as others have mentioned tend to eat memory.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps? by scarface74 on Sunday May 06, 2018 @01:23PM (#17007252)

I'm assuming if you are tracking ticket prices it needs to be connected to the internet, in that case, why do you need an app instead of just a website?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Electron really that bad for desktop apps? by stephenr on Sunday May 06, 2018 @03:18PM (#17007893)

> people have built businesses around Electron apps (VSCode is built on Electron, I believe)

Wat. Microsoft isn't "built around" VSCode.

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