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Mostly I would just want Electron to disappear overnight.
So ignore they exist & live the future you want. Any resurgence in Desktop Apps was because of Electron, many of which would not have been created otherwise.
What M1 giveth, Electron taketh away. Sigh.
Mostly I would just want Electron to disappear overnight.
If you don't want Electron apps, don't use them. It's not like they would exist without Electron. The people who build Electron apps are, for the most part, people who wouldn't build an app otherwise.
> Electron 11.0.0 est disponible ! It includes upgrades to Chromium 87, V8 8.7, and Node.js 12.18.3. We've added support for Apple silicon, and general improvements. Lisez la suite ci-dessous pour plus de détails !
> La team Electron est excitée d'annoncer la sortie de Electron 11.0.0 ! Vous pouvez l'installer avec npm via npm install electron@latest ou le télécharger sur notre site web. The release is packed with upgrades, fixes, and new support for Apple's M1 hardware.
Is this means that VS code can be running on an iPad ?
Electron doesn't work on Android either and AFAIK there are no plans to make it work there.
I am really curious why the response to Apple Silicon is so prompt vs when Microsoft did WinRT or ARM versions nobody really cared. What is the difference? Was there some problem in compilation tool-chain or what?
Unless I misread your question, it is because the M1 is a vastly superior chip not just to the Microsoft ARM efforts, but also to all the Intel efforts.
From their blog post about Apple Silicon[1] > In the future, we will release a package that allows you to "merge" your arm64 and x64 apps into a single universal binary, but it's worth noting that this binary would be huge and probably isn't ideal for shipping to users. It seems like things are going to get a bit confusing with Electron apps, and with the number of Electron apps that exist, this transition might not…
> it's worth noting that this binary would be huge and probably isn't ideal for shipping to users Funny, because that's what I've always considered of Electron. I wonder where the breaking point for Electron is?
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Why would Electron run anymore or less natively with this change?
I’m guessing Electron apps worked without explicit support via Rosetta 2, but with explicit support the performance should be better. And - speculating - I’d guess that there’s quite a lot of code in Electron apps that isn’t AOTed by Rosetta, and that it would have more performance implications there than a native x86 Mac App would just because it has a lot of ongoing transpilation to do. With this change they can cu…
So yes, rosetta performance loss on electron apps would be significantly larger than on native x86 apps.
(I'm probably going to find out since I don't plan to ship ARM build of my electron app)