Re:It is fast or it is wrong
by latexr on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:23PM
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> I can't speak to Discord or Atom. Those ones make less sense to me, but there might be a reason there, too.
Electron exists because of Atom (yes, in that order). Electron was previously called Atom Shell[1] because it was created specifically to house Atom, although they mention it wasn’t created just for that. If there’s one app that has a reason to be built on Electron, it’s Atom, because it was an experiment to see how viable that solution would be.
But even they understand that solution wasn’t the best because it’s slow, so they’re experimenting with a model where the application logic is written in Rust and only the UI is built with web technologies[2].
Electron exists because of Atom (yes, in that order). Electron was previously called Atom Shell[1] because it was created specifically to house Atom, although they mention it wasn’t created just for that. If there’s one app that has a reason to be built on Electron, it’s Atom, because it was an experiment to see how viable that solution would be.
But even they understand that solution wasn’t the best because it’s slow, so they’re experimenting with a model where the application logic is written in Rust and only the UI is built with web technologies[2].
[1]: https://electronjs.org/blog/electron
[2]: https://github.com/atom/xray