Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by dtech on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @01:49PM (#19155561)

Combination of things really

  * Non-native look and feel. Personally I think this is the big one.
  * Applications/Applets took (take?) forever to boot. JIT takes a while to kick in.
  * High memory usage due to heap+reference memory model and GC model.
  * Latency spikes due to GC
  * Installing a JRE is cumbersome for users
  * Incompatible JRE versions are a pain for users

If I'm being perfectly honest, a lot of the problems people have with Electron were or are problems with JVM consumer applications.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by Teknoman117 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:12PM (#19157619)

And electron has a native look and feel?

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by dtech on Thursday February 14, 2019 @05:40PM (#19166775)

Most of the electron apps have a very customized look and feel, and default to a website-ish look and feel. Maybe not native but at least users are used to it, and it's not as alien as Swing.

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