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Re: Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

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I'd be delighted to! We're using Electron, React and TypeScript. You can check out our development team's blog here for more information: - Cross-Platform Application Design with Electron, React, and gRPC ( https://medium.com/p/c13a429b5346/ ) - Why Did We Choose React and TypeScript for QueryPie? ( https://medium.com/p/56c9b2ab352 )

You lost me at Electron. Good luck, but I'm not your target market.

Why is there all this hate for Electron here?

Re: Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

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I'd be delighted to! We're using Electron, React and TypeScript. You can check out our development team's blog here for more information: - Cross-Platform Application Design with Electron, React, and gRPC ( https://medium.com/p/c13a429b5346/ ) - Why Did We Choose React and TypeScript for QueryPie? ( https://medium.com/p/56c9b2ab352 )

This is Hacker News so you will get lots of people chiming in to remind you they won’t use your project because it’s Electron. The people like me usually don’t say anything but I know how disheartening it can be to only receive negativity so I’m going to chime in. I’m currently running Slack and Discord and am happy with both desktop applications. I would absolute consider using any future electron based applications…

I think VS Code is the gold standard for Electron.

Slack, not so much. On my work laptop, it uses 800mb over 5 processes, and is easily 5x slower to paste a screenshot into than Teams.

Re: Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

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I'd be delighted to! We're using Electron, React and TypeScript. You can check out our development team's blog here for more information: - Cross-Platform Application Design with Electron, React, and gRPC ( https://medium.com/p/c13a429b5346/ ) - Why Did We Choose React and TypeScript for QueryPie? ( https://medium.com/p/56c9b2ab352 )

This is Hacker News so you will get lots of people chiming in to remind you they won’t use your project because it’s Electron. The people like me usually don’t say anything but I know how disheartening it can be to only receive negativity so I’m going to chime in. I’m currently running Slack and Discord and am happy with both desktop applications. I would absolute consider using any future electron based applications…

same here,for most cross platform desktop gui I too consider electron is the best choice,though may not be the perfect one.

Re: Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

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Because it's terrible.

But why is it terrible? Just because it's a bulky, but cross-platform solution?

It uses ridiculous amounts of resources, introduces security issues (when you remove a bunch of the sandboxing a browser does, but then still execute content that comes from the web, bad things are gonna happen), and generally the apps don't conform to any desktop norms for any platform.

Re: Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

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I'd be delighted to! We're using Electron, React and TypeScript. You can check out our development team's blog here for more information: - Cross-Platform Application Design with Electron, React, and gRPC ( https://medium.com/p/c13a429b5346/ ) - Why Did We Choose React and TypeScript for QueryPie? ( https://medium.com/p/56c9b2ab352 )

This is Hacker News so you will get lots of people chiming in to remind you they won’t use your project because it’s Electron. The people like me usually don’t say anything but I know how disheartening it can be to only receive negativity so I’m going to chime in. I’m currently running Slack and Discord and am happy with both desktop applications. I would absolute consider using any future electron based applications…

Would you prefer no one said anything, and the OP wasn't aware that their technical choices will affect whether potential customers use their app?

This isn't like "I don't like .Net so I'm not going to use any web app or service that runs on the Microsoft stack". The technology choices they make affect how it runs on each individual user's computer, and that will affect some people's decision to use (or not) the app.

Re: Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

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I'd be delighted to! We're using Electron, React and TypeScript. You can check out our development team's blog here for more information: - Cross-Platform Application Design with Electron, React, and gRPC ( https://medium.com/p/c13a429b5346/ ) - Why Did We Choose React and TypeScript for QueryPie? ( https://medium.com/p/56c9b2ab352 )

This is Hacker News so you will get lots of people chiming in to remind you they won’t use your project because it’s Electron. The people like me usually don’t say anything but I know how disheartening it can be to only receive negativity so I’m going to chime in. I’m currently running Slack and Discord and am happy with both desktop applications. I would absolute consider using any future electron based applications…

10 or 15 years ago, people releasing desktop apps built on Java endured the same negativity.

Meanwhile customers happily used the apps without caring about what tech was used because the apps solved problems for them.

Likewise these days with Electron. If you app solves a real problem, people will use it regardless of the tech you use.

Re: Show HN: Simple but Powerful IDE for Databases

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This is Hacker News so you will get lots of people chiming in to remind you they won’t use your project because it’s Electron. The people like me usually don’t say anything but I know how disheartening it can be to only receive negativity so I’m going to chime in. I’m currently running Slack and Discord and am happy with both desktop applications. I would absolute consider using any future electron based applications…

Would you prefer no one said anything, and the OP wasn't aware that their technical choices will affect whether potential customers use their app? This isn't like "I don't like .Net so I'm not going to use any web app or service that runs on the Microsoft stack". The technology choices they make affect how it runs on each individual user's computer, and that will affect some people's decision to use (or not) the app.

Most people care about the features, there's a really small amount of people for which the tech stack matters. Negligible, I'd guess.

So no, you're not doing anyone any favours here, just spreading negativity.

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