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Re:Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music by saagarjha on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @01:09PM (#18923256)
One of the major issues with Electron is that it encourages users to rely on very specific versions that their Electron/Node runtime supports, which prevents the "solution" of wrapping a website in a web view and calling it an app, which, while still not great, is much better than bundling the same resource hog with each individual app.
Re:Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music by bluedino on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @02:04PM (#18923852)
What's funny is people won't tolerate these platform-independent frameworks on their mobile devices, but eat it up on their PC's.
Re:Nuclear – Popcorn Time for music by TeMPOraL on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @02:22PM (#18924057)
Nah, I think people complaining about those mobile frameworks are the same group as people complaining about Electron. I'm definitely in both groups, and mostly for the same reasons: bloat, bad performance, and being inconsistent and not interoperable with everything else running on the machine.