Re:NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using nati...
by dirkg on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:10PM
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Gnome already is based on html/js. There is no need for 10 different UI toolkits if one standard can be optimized. The problem is html/js are far from well designed but due to their popularity a lot of time and money has been spent optimizing them.
> Native desktop apps are never coming back
I really hope you're wrong. This would be a terrible outcome for so many reasons. I refuse to use Electron apps on my personal laptop on account of the absolutely noticeable degradation of performance and battery life from using these Electron apps. Using vscode literally halved my battery life.