Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

On macOS, the alternative would be to use Fluid[1]. You can build mini-apps from a lot of websites and the footprint is very little. (No affiliation, just a happy user)

[1] http://fluidapp.com/

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

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Post by jlebrech » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 2:02 PM UTC

it's a stop gap will WASM is used for both desktop and web.

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

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Post by trebor » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 2:03 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #3

Isn't it more like Adobe Air with JS instead of AS?

Actually, Adobe Air has supported JS for a long time. Certain APIs were only exposed to AS, but I'm sure that's changed over time.

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

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Post by tantalor » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #3

Isn't it more like Adobe Air with JS instead of AS?

The analogy is extremely weak. At best, "flash" is a stand-in for "bad performance".

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

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Post by eru_melkor » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

Holy shit! Are we behind reddit on this? https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/64oqaq/electro...

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

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Post by tyingq » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 2:05 PM UTC

>But that's not abnormal for slack. In fact, slack often idles at 5% CPU usage. Whats it doing? I have no idea.

Probably something like this: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900 (not the cursor thing specifically, but something that feels lightweight, but isn't)

Which is probably fixable. I would guess Vscode is more code than Slack, and they were able to fix this, albeit with very good help from a customer.

Re: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

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Post by rhapsodic » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 2:06 PM UTC

I wonder how a JS/HTML desktop using the Adobe AIR runtime would compare.