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Re:Ode to the M1 by jrockway on Sunday August 13, 2023 @02:46AM (#37107289)
The problem is having to target 5 operating systems. Extremely complicated web app runs on Linux, Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. Carefully-crafted Native UI widgets only target one platform at a time.

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?

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Re:Ode to the M1 by raverbashing on Sunday August 13, 2023 @03:33AM (#37107540)
Exactly this.

And HTML/CSS may have its quirks but I'll take it every day over fumbling with GTK or whatever

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Re:Ode to the M1 by satvikpendem on Sunday August 13, 2023 @04:57AM (#37107997)
I just use Flutter instead, works great for all 5 OS.
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Re:Ode to the M1 by bombcar on Sunday August 13, 2023 @08:14AM (#37109203)
Arguably the success of MacOS has caused the expansion of Electron, because developers are using macs and want to use macs even when programming tools for windows.
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Re:Ode to the M1 by caycep on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:55AM (#37121755)
Some (maybe Apple) ought to make a Swift -> Windows/Linux cross compiler...
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