Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon
by paxys on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:40AM
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They have to build and maintain the web version regardless. Why also write individual clients for Windows, Mac and Linux when they can simply wrap the website in a thin desktop wrapper and call it a day?
Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon
by mrweasel on Friday November 20, 2020 @06:41AM
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Because they care about the user experience and delivering the best possible product to their customers? Maybe not.
Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon
by Jare on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:48PM
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Based on their success, that's exactly what they are already doing, presumably thanks to the choices they are making.
Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon
by mrtksn on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:40AM
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Maybe it's easy to sell the "One codebase on all platform" idea to the managers and hard to justify the need for high quality app? People are using it anyway.
What I don't get is why they don't want to make a native macOS client, or Windows client. For Linux I get that they don't necessarily know if it should be GTK, QT, should they adopt KDE standards or Gnome, something else maybe? I can see why they would like Electron in that case.
For something like the Mac... They could do a fantastic client, it would use very little memory, play nice with the OS and be fast. Their users would notice and love it.