Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil

Re:Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil by commandlinefan on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:48PM (#29420574)

If it didn't say "Electron" in the title, I'd have thought he was describing Java. I don't see why Electron itself is a necessary evil - Java has been able to do all of this (just as badly) for over 20 years.

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Re:Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil by criddell on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:12PM (#29420980)

Java is very lean compared to Electron.

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Re:Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil by JCWasmx86 on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:21PM (#29421099)

And you can often have only one JVM installed. (Maybe not the average user after the JRE was killed, but at least theoretically it is possible)

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Re:Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil by dokka on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:50PM (#29420599)

At least java is actually typesafe

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Re:Why Electron Is a Necessary Evil by cwdegidio on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:57PM (#29420729)

And has a rather stable ecosystem. I've been doing front-end development for almost 10 years now and have started moving into more Java based projects recently and after living through the "flavor of the week" hellscape that is the JS community, I'll take Java's stability any day of the week. And I say this as someone who does actually love JavaScript.

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