[lazarus101]

Development time needed to create desktop apps (for Windows, Mac and Linux) given that there's already an existing webapp:

- using Electron: 1 month

- using QT: 2 years

[mijoharas]

Chrome apps would have solved one of the main problems if they were still a thing (does anyone know why chrome deprecated them?).

(by reusing the chrome context, your memory usage wouldn't grow unnecessarily for each new slack/spotify/whatever you open).

[lima]

They were deprecated because they aren't really necessary anymore now that you have things like service workers and NaCL. Never worked on mobile, too.

Progressive Web Apps is where it's at.

[jhasse]

> does anyone know why chrome deprecated them?

To push Chrome OS (where they will still be available) and to vendor lock-in people with Android apps.

[buremba]

Yep, I hate that all of these companies try to convert their applications from tabs to dedicated processes. It would be a huge deal breaker if Chrome Apps could become a thing and replace them. Now I have 4 different Chrome apps running on my computer.