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datenarsch | 4 years ago

Sorry, but no. Electron is the absolute worst piece of technology that I have come across in at least the last 20 years. It's not only that it is bloated, ridiculously resource hungry and terribly inconsistent because every program has it's own set of UI controls, but it's also just absolutely plain terrible to work with:

The APIs are a complete mess, half of them are not working properly, things constantly get broken between even minor version revisions, the documentation is usually outdated and incorrect and you need to plaster your code with OS-specific if-else statements all over the place because many of Electron's APIs behave differently on different OSes. The whole thing is just a complete disaster.

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spoils19|4 years ago

Agreed completely. In terms of the absolute worst piece of technology, there have been no applications that have even been shipped successfully with it, and every developer who uses it is probably encountering some form of s=Stockholm syndrome, or they're inexperienced enough as developers to not see the value of native applications.