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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by fao_ on Monday April 29, 2019 @01:25AM (#19776043)
> and 2019 performance.

This is kind of amusing given that most new modern things in the hacker news ecosystem use either electron or some other variation of nodejs. Which is usually the exact opposite of 'performant'.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by sp0rk on Monday April 29, 2019 @01:30AM (#19776058)
You're confusing performance with efficiency.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by dx034 on Monday April 29, 2019 @01:46AM (#19776115)
Most Electron apps are not only not efficient but also not performant.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by willbw on Monday April 29, 2019 @01:56AM (#19776147)
Except in development time and cost.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by AstralStorm on Monday April 29, 2019 @03:39AM (#19776539)
And the users care about this why?

Delphi calls from 1998, it was even faster than Electron in development time and cost. Yet almost nobody uses it now.

What killed it? Just one has economic bust and developer generation change perhaps?

(And no, it was not networking, it had good capabilities the too. It wasn't web either.)

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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by Wiretrip on Monday April 29, 2019 @07:08AM (#19777317)
Ha! I still use Delphi (amongst other things)! It's great for producing Native Windows apps and is extremely performant (and still works with Win 10). I stuck with Delphi 7 (and thus avoided all the subsequent politics).
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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by Wiretrip on Monday April 29, 2019 @07:09AM (#19777321)
As a adjunct, apparently it is still really popular in Germany.
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Re:Ask HN: Are you put off building something because it alr... by brlewis on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:54AM (#19777877)
You may be comparing to the C era. Compare nodejs to PHP/Python/Ruby and "2019 performance" makes sense.
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