Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
by handrous on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:40PM
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I'm 100% convinced the appeal of Electron is that it makes chasing the latest UI trends month-to-month as easy on the desktop as it is on the web. Designers and businesses (and lots of developers) consider this essential, these days, for whatever reason. The above (yes, including the business side) will all complain about how a real desktop program using built-in or otherwise sane-and-stable GUI elements that haven't changed for 5 years looks too "old".
Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
by postalrat on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @09:23PM
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How many popular desktop apps use anything resembling native GUI elements?
Not browsers, not photo editors, not games, not many chat applications. Certainly there must be some big ones that do right?
Re:Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
by CyberDildonics on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:14PM
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Now you are moving the goal posts again from 'no other way to do cross platform apps' to 'what uses native GUI elements'.
The dozen cross platform libraries that have been around for multiple decades are all 100 times faster than the electron, that's the point.
People talk about electron being 'the only way to create cross platform apps' and ignore fltk, juce, qt, gtk, wxWidgets, tk and a whole host of other solutions, not to mention making a local webserver, opengl guis etc.
When someone only knows javascript they might want to work with electron, but no one who is going to use that software wishes it was made in electron. That's the bottom line, people don't want it, it is a selfish decision that creates terrible interactivity and grossly bloated software.