Electron 7.0

Post by DonHopkins » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 12:08 AM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #5

I'm bullish on Electron. I think it's just a couple of technical advancements away from being the ultimate desktop toolkit. For context, I love and have worked a ton with Qt, and I much prefer Qt UIs as a user. But Electron has brought true cross-platform development to all platforms (Including Linux!). If it weren't for Electron, I wouldn't even have a bunch of the apps I use today. Hell, I wouldn't have a good IDE,…

Post by hajile » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 12:13 AM UTC

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I release two apps, across 3 OSes, in somewhat of a bimonthly cadence with a low defect rate. That’s 6 different binaries. I’m a solo founder. I know people like to rag on Electron, but without it, I wouldn’t be using something else, my apps just wouldn’t exist . It allows more people to try building more thing and that is a net positive. The speed problems and bloat issues of Electron is just shoddy programming on t…

>The speed problems and bloat issues of Electron is just shoddy programming on the maker’s part - Electron itself isn’t slow. I doubt this is entirely true. VSCode is frequently cited as an example of a good, performant Electron application. Its performance is generally acceptable (I use it as my primary text editor), but it absolutely chugs sometimes. Sublime is light-years ahead in terms of performance.

Post by DonHopkins » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 12:17 AM UTC

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For me, and probably others, the main issue with Electron isn't the speed or even resource usage. It's that it ignores common UX/UI conventions you expect from a native app which still makes me prefer native macOS apps.

I think this peaked some time around 2015. Back then, I remember many developers getting up in arms about following Apple's guidelines to a T, or insisting that Android apps look like a hyperactive stack of colorful paper cutouts under a direct light. Since then, I think many of us have gotten tired of looking at overdesigned sameness that by now we all know will age quickly. Programmers no longer see the sense in ch…

Post by DonHopkins » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 12:20 AM UTC

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Personally I'm fine with application specific UI schemes. It's a bit silly every application would follow the same guidelines as applications are intended to do different things. Platform UX/UI conventions place too strict limitations on innovation. The original point - that people would get confused from non-platform UI schemes - has been proven kind of moot since most games have their own domain specific UI schemes…

> It's a bit silly every application would follow the same guidelines as applications are intended to do different things. Platform UX/UI conventions place too strict limitations on innovation. They really don’t. Have you taken a look at the thriving ecosystem of native, powerful macOS apps that follow platform conventions?

Post by iaml » Fri, Oct 25, 2019, 12:32 AM UTC

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scrollaway wrote: post #5

I'm bullish on Electron. I think it's just a couple of technical advancements away from being the ultimate desktop toolkit. For context, I love and have worked a ton with Qt, and I much prefer Qt UIs as a user. But Electron has brought true cross-platform development to all platforms (Including Linux!). If it weren't for Electron, I wouldn't even have a bunch of the apps I use today. Hell, I wouldn't have a good IDE,…

Besides memory consumption, the killer feature for me would be true native text boxes. Skype on the Mac won't expand my abbreviations, use my dictionaries, etc. Drives me nuts. Maybe that's Skype's fault, it wouldn't surprise me, but I think I've seen this behavior elsewhere. Skype is, thankfully, the only Electron app I have to interact frequently.