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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by bigstrat2003 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:54PM (#50407484)
> We can just admit that it was a good solution for the problems of its time just like JQuery.

We would be lying if we did that. Electron was never, ever a good solution. It was something solely used by devs who prioritized their own ease of work over the actual user experience, i.e. bad devs.

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by kristiandupont on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:09PM (#50407589)
Do you have an employer?
Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by rpdillon on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:50PM (#50408363)
Its a straight-up business decision, generally made by MBAs and with advice from engineers and executed by the engineers. That's because it changes the shape of the org when you need a separate team for each platform, so any org where the benefit of doing so doesn't get articulated sufficiently, will end up with fewer devs covering more platforms.

Acting like this is a decision the ICs make is disconnected from why electron is so prevalent.

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by Grombobulous on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:10PM (#50408537)
If it’s so easy to provide a better user experience using something else besides Electron then logically you should be able to point to chat apps that won over more user adoption than Slack and Discord.

Someone would have been able to disrupt that market by making a much better chat app since Elecron is so bad for user experience.