If you want to get rid of Electron, you personally have to volunteer to be responsible for 5x the work of anyone else, and accept bootcamp-graduate pay. Do you see why it's not happening?
And HTML/CSS may have its quirks but I'll take it every day over fumbling with GTK or whatever
Like consumers that want to buy a phone that fit in the hand… there is none at a reasonable price.
Kinda like headphone ports and microSD slots on android phones. Are there models that do this? Yes! Is anyone willing to pay more for it? No! But they are very very loud online about it.
There do exist smaller android phones as well, just like a headphone port nothing is stopping you from buying one instead of complaining on the internet!
> Is anyone willing to pay more for it? No!
Is anyone willing to pick a phone over another (despite what paulmd's opinion might be)? YES.
> There do exist smaller android phones as well
No they don't. There is NOTHING on the market currently that is sized and priced like a samsung S5 mini today.
iphone mini wasn't priced like 6 phones, and it still didn't sell well. again, you can't seem to grapple with the reality here that what you want is a very niche thing and it doesn't sell well as a mass-market product regardless of price. that is, after all, why apple stopped making that size once again.
the iphone SE is about as small as the market wants. Below that is the domain of mini phones - which do exist, but mostly from smaller android vendors.
> No they don't. There is NOTHING on the market currently that is sized and priced like a samsung S5 mini today.
s5 mini: 131.1 x 64.8 x 9.1 mm
cubot pocket 3: 133.2 x 55 x 12.3mm
unihertz jelly pro: 92.4 × 43 × 13 mm
just with literally a few minutes of searching.
again: the whining is a lot more intense than the reality. you are being catered to, you just want a niche product to be as cheap or moreso than the mainstream products that sell a zillionty units.
Still costs 4x than regular android phones.
> you can't seem to grapple with the reality
You can't seem to grapple with the reality that 839€ for a phone is completely insane, and not everybody is a rich spoiled person like you.
> unihertz jelly pro: 92.4 × 43 × 13 mm
Funny… I am returning a unihertz because of software issues (default google apps just crashing)… sure it's small… but I implied that stuff must work.
> just with literally a few minutes of searching.
Too bad that being rich and spoiled didn't enrich your brain uh?
I hope it's ok for you that unlike you, I knew what I was talking about.
For your small phone example, even Apple is cutting production of their smaller phones because not enough people are buying them. The entire premise really is overblown online.
You've ever heard a anyone say "This computer is too fast" or "this computer doesn't burn enough electricity"?
> For your small phone example, even Apple is cutting production of their smaller phones because not enough people are buying them.
Yeah I did mention "reasonably priced", which apple is not.
And you know that because you’ve analyzed whole market and know opinion of users of every web software? Definitely not because you only live in bubble of other software engineers so you’re not exposed to complaints of common folk?
Discord has gotten pretty solid, vscode is spit fast. The hate against Electron feels so selective & antagonistic, picks it's targets, never acknowledged any value, never recognizes any points for the other side. It is just incredibly lopsidedly biased. Over what doesn't feel real to so many.
I was hoping Tauri would be the one, by using a shared library model. That would drop memory consumption down significantly. But they use webkit on Linux and I'm sorry but I want a much better base that supports more modern capabilities.
Just changing their high level data structures alone would yield 10x improvements, easily.