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Re:Atom Was Archived Today by drdeca on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:07AM (#34010599)
“ because browsers change over time and electron helps you get a working offline snapshot of something you created.”

If the browsers change in a way that makes the website not work, the electron application will still work.

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Re:Atom Was Archived Today by csande17 on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:12AM (#34010645)
This makes sense from the perspective of the individual developer, but it's also a sad reflection of the sorry state of technology that the only way to be sure a website will work in 5 years is by shipping your own copy of the browser.
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