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Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by anticodon »

briandear wrote: post #8
yodon wrote: post #4

Looking over the donors page, I'm pretty amazed at slack's absence. Ditto for Microsoft Teams. Way to give back to the community.

I’d rather Slack just stop using electron and write a real native app; they can certainly afford it. Meanwhile, Slack remains an incredible resource hog.

It also behaves very erratically on a slower channels. On 3G speeds and lower it becomes basically unusable - messages are not sent or sent in the wrong order.

Why it needs so much resources just to send a few bytes of text?..

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by make3 »

yodon wrote: post #4

Looking over the donors page, I'm pretty amazed at slack's absence. Ditto for Microsoft Teams. Way to give back to the community.

are you kidding, GitHub belongs to Microsoft, they would be giving themselves money

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by kethinov »

Does anyone know if the idea of creating a runtime mode for Electron is on the roadmap? (A runtime mode would be allowing multiple apps to share one installed Electron dependency rather than bundling Electron with every Electron app.)

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by BubRoss »

kethinov wrote: post #13

Does anyone know if the idea of creating a runtime mode for Electron is on the roadmap? (A runtime mode would be allowing multiple apps to share one installed Electron dependency rather than bundling Electron with every Electron app.)

Or just build local permissions into web browsers and download 200KB of HTML and JavaScript instead of 200MB for an electronic install.

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by pjmlp »

BubRoss wrote: post #14
kethinov wrote: post #13

Does anyone know if the idea of creating a runtime mode for Electron is on the roadmap? (A runtime mode would be allowing multiple apps to share one installed Electron dependency rather than bundling Electron with every Electron app.)

Or just build local permissions into web browsers and download 200KB of HTML and JavaScript instead of 200MB for an electronic install.

Cough, PWA.

https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/progressive-...

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by aportnoy »

briandear wrote: post #8
yodon wrote: post #4

Looking over the donors page, I'm pretty amazed at slack's absence. Ditto for Microsoft Teams. Way to give back to the community.

I’d rather Slack just stop using electron and write a real native app; they can certainly afford it. Meanwhile, Slack remains an incredible resource hog.

Slack takes 5-7 seconds to start up and connect on an ultra low latency 300 Mbit connection. I really wish there were a native app on Mac.

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by stabbles »

kethinov wrote: post #13

Does anyone know if the idea of creating a runtime mode for Electron is on the roadmap? (A runtime mode would be allowing multiple apps to share one installed Electron dependency rather than bundling Electron with every Electron app.)

Yes, that would be very useful to have. Some runtime, or some central application, so that the user just has to download some HTML, CSS and Javascript -- not a complete copy of Electron each time. And if this application could be used to browse the internet when the user enters a URL, that would be useful too! Game changer!

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by flukus »

pjmlp wrote: post #15
BubRoss wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just build local permissions into web browsers and download 200KB of HTML and JavaScript instead of 200MB for an electronic install.

Cough, PWA. https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/progressive-...

Probably OK for some uses, like when you publish as a web app anyway, but for others it burdens you with keeping up with the aggressive release cycle of browsers.

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by aserafini »

stabbles wrote: post #17
kethinov wrote: post #13

Does anyone know if the idea of creating a runtime mode for Electron is on the roadmap? (A runtime mode would be allowing multiple apps to share one installed Electron dependency rather than bundling Electron with every Electron app.)

Yes, that would be very useful to have. Some runtime, or some central application, so that the user just has to download some HTML, CSS and Javascript -- not a complete copy of Electron each time. And if this application could be used to browse the internet when the user enters a URL, that would be useful too! Game changer!

Yes great idea! The different applications (or URLs) could be opened simultaneously and displayed as ‘tabs’ for the user to manage in the central application.

Re: Electron v5.0 Timeline

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Post by dewiz »

aserafini wrote: post #19
stabbles wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, that would be very useful to have. Some runtime, or some central application, so that the user just has to download some HTML, CSS and Javascript -- not a complete copy of Electron each time. And if this application could be used to browse the internet when the user enters a URL, that would be useful too! Game changer!

Yes great idea! The different applications (or URLs) could be opened simultaneously and displayed as ‘tabs’ for the user to manage in the central application.

That would also allow to call one application from another, just assigning some reserved namespace or domain and appending the feature at the end, kind of a path. Exciting times!
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