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Re: Portal Windows for Electron

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afavour wrote: post #8
0xDEEPFAC wrote: post #2

Why not just write a native application?

Because it's cheaper, quicker and the vast majority of users are fine with it. I'm not excusing it, I curse Slack every day I have to use their Electron app (though mostly just use it in a browser tab now) but we have this exact same conversation every time anything about Electron is posted on HN. None of the parameters for making the choice have changed since the last time we did.

It's been a couple years since my workplace migrated away from slack, but I found weeslack [1], a plugin for weechat, to be sufficient.

Re: Portal Windows for Electron

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CyberDildonics wrote: post #40
afavour wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it's cheaper, quicker and the vast majority of users are fine with it. I'm not excusing it, I curse Slack every day I have to use their Electron app (though mostly just use it in a browser tab now) but we have this exact same conversation every time anything about Electron is posted on HN. None of the parameters for making the choice have changed since the last time we did.

The real reason is that the people making electron apps don't know how to make stuff in C++ and don't want to try. This might be a little more excusable before C++11 or if trying to avoid MFC and/or doing everything with win32, but modern C++ and GUI libraries like FLTK, Juce, Qt, etc. are a pretty great way to make something. A FLTK program can start at 100KB without dependencies.

These aren’t developer choices being made. They’re product choices by product managers. I bet there are plenty of JS developers that would be interested in picking up C++ or something like Rust but don’t have the option.
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