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[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is there any alternatives to electron ? And why people's doesn't move on to alternatives if electron is huge & heavy resources ?

[–] dpflug@kbin.earth 11 points 4 months ago

I mean, Object Pascal was doing the "write once, run anywhere" thing decades ago. Java, too. The former, especially, can make very small programs with big features.

[–] dbx12@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

The alternative is "just serve it as a regular website". It doesn't need to be an app to do its job. Name a functionality which only exists in electron but not in the standard browser API.