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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron? by bsder on Saturday March 26, 2022 @07:20PM (#30816238)
> It's not about the quality of chromium at all, only ubiquity.

Bingo.

I don't understand why people keep failing to learn this lesson.

Java became popular because Sun drove it to become default installed on lots of enterprise computers. Python later became popular because if you had a standalone computer you had "batteries included" so you had the same stuff always installed.

And what people keep forgetting is that Electron is the low friction way of supporting Linux and macOS--whom most programmers would mostly like to ignore. If you write your app in Electron, you write on Windows, claim you support Linux and macOS and then ignore them.

Re:Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron? by badpun on Sunday March 27, 2022 @08:04AM (#30819607)
Java became popular on server side because alternatives were much worse (either lacking static typing like Perl or harder to develop like C++) AND Java was cross-platform. Back in those times, servers weren’t just x86+Linux boxes they are today, but had distinct os-es and CPU architectures.