Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron
by SyneRyder on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:12AM
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> There's RAD tools like WinForms and VB that let you drag'n'drop most of the UI if you're happy targeting a single platform.
Even if you want cross-platform native RAD development, there's options like Xojo / REALbasic [1], at least for Windows / Mac / Linux / RaspberryPi development. I'd bet that most of the Xojo developers are single-person coding shops, and certainly don't have big teams of developers & designers behind them.
Electron is definitely not the only option out there. Anecdata, but most of the people I know personally making money from single-developer cross-platform apps are using Qt, not Electron.
Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron
by ex3ndr on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:55AM
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You have to support web too. Are you going to build app in Qt for web too?
Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron
by langitbiru on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:03AM
(#20122565)
Maybe the answer is Flutter.
Re:To Revive the Mac, Apple Wants to Kill Electron
by AndriyKunitsyn on Friday June 07, 2019 @04:02AM
(#20122557)
What? No, in general you don't.
That is just blatantly wrong. There's cross platform toolkits like Gtk/Qt/Swing/others that I'd say are still easier to build apps with than electron. There's RAD tools like WinForms and VB that let you drag'n'drop most of the UI if you're happy targeting a single platform.
Electron is still not as good as these options were 20 years ago, the only thing it has going for it are a legion of web developers that are seemingly incapable of learning something different.