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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by danuker on Thursday March 03, 2022 @03:57AM (#30538753)
I think Electron is neither here nor there. It is the "stroad" of software distribution: the sluggishness and poor performance of a web interface, coupled with the difficulty to upgrade of a desktop package.

Personally I push for either native apps or web apps, to regain at least one of the benefits lost by packaging web apps.

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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by ihateolives on Thursday March 03, 2022 @04:14AM (#30538876)
> coupled with the difficulty to upgrade of a desktop package

Huh? Two Electron apps that I use are Github Desktop and VSC. Neither is sluggish and both have streamlined automatic updates.

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Re:The decline and fall of Java on the desktop by danuker on Thursday March 03, 2022 @10:34AM (#30542317)
> streamlined automatic updates

Sure, from the user's perspective. But from the provider's perspective, there is a lot of infrastructure needed to reliably and automatically update on various platforms.

Compiling files per-platform, hosting them securely, checking checksums, binary self-replacement, settings migration for many possible settings...

Compare with deploying the server code, migration only for one data set (the one on the server), and then hitting refresh in a web browser.

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