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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? by rathboma on Thursday March 24, 2022 @02:43PM (#30793806)
As a dev with a lot of experience in JS/HTML/CSS Electron makes things super easy, especially when it can be part of the regular build pipeline.

Learning Qt means figuring out a whole new stack and build chain. Maybe the result would be better, but with only a few hours a week I didn't feel like it would have been worth the time investment.

See for example:

https://nklayman.github.io/vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder/g...

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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? by DiggyJohnson on Thursday March 24, 2022 @04:39PM (#30795071)
> regular

I think the reason you consider the web app publishing pipeline the “regular” pipeline is the reason we’re having this discussion =p

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