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Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon by hombre_fatal on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:15AM (#25158355)
As someone who switches between Windows and macOS, I'd rather every app I use be Electron and available on both OS than native and only available on one.

Native does basically nothing for me that matters when it comes to accomplishing things. Just OS lock-in. Loading a little faster or being a little snappier is a small consolation.

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Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon by benhurmarcel on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:32AM (#25159815)
As much as the community like to complain about it, I find that the popularity of Electron has been a real saver for Linux on the desktop. It finally has all the major applications available, often officially supported. Yes it's slow, but at least it's there.
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Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon by john_alan on Friday November 20, 2020 @05:09AM (#25159010)
Wel native is important for me.

Some people don’t care about coffee, caffeine and brown slop is good enough.

Some people do care. I feel the difference in native and it’s worth it for apps you spend lots of time in.

Electron and Qt are not in the same league.

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Re:Electron 11.0 released with support for Apple Silicon by wayneftw on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:12AM (#25161173)
> Electron and Qt are not in the same league.

No, they're certainly not. Qt takes a lot of effort to produce apps that look like garbage on every OS while Electron takes no effort to produce apps that look great everywhere. VLC Media Player - arguably the most popular Qt app - looks like dog shit.

Qt will have you coding in an old shitty programming language or using duct-tape and glue to bind it to a more popular language while Electron will have you coding in the most popular programming language and getting things done in a fraction of the time.

Qt is register-ware that is moving closer to being closed-source while Electron is 100% open source.

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