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Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter by spiderice on Sunday January 09, 2022 @03:26PM (#29866998)
I hate when people bring up VS Code in defense of electron. It is basically the one application built in electron that isn't obviously significantly worse because of it. And it's because it is backed by a trillion dollar company that can afford to invest the time to fix the electron limitations for their project. No other app built in electron is even remotely close to VS Code, which is still noticeably bad in performance when compared to native editors.
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Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter by surfmike on Sunday January 09, 2022 @03:50PM (#29867195)
Slack, Spotify, and Obsidian.md are other apps where I couldn’t really care that it’s using electron.
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Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter by josefrichter on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:07PM (#29867343)
Slack and Spotify are not great. You can tell they're electron. I don't know Obsidian.
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Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter by pacomerh on Sunday January 09, 2022 @09:53PM (#29870038)
It's still used by millions, so I would say it's a success
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Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter by pjmlp on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:11AM (#29871529)
I use Electron based apps, because they are part of the job, refusing them means looking for another job, which in the current world status is kind of not really what I want to do.

The path to sucess is a very tortuous one full of victims.

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Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter by howinteresting on Sunday January 09, 2022 @03:49PM (#29867189)
1password 8 is also very good, being built in Electron with a Rust backend.
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Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter by mandrizzle on Sunday January 09, 2022 @05:11PM (#29867841)
Is it better than the native 1password7?
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Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter by howinteresting on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:56AM (#29871162)
Personally, yes, I think so.
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Re:Lessons learned from migrating a native iOS app to Flutter by pjmlp on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:41PM (#29867584)
Additionally they offload tons of stuff to native code out of process.
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