Most applications that are Electron either only support Windows or also want to support Android, iOS and Web. I assume there is some toolkit out there that supports everything, but honestly HTML5 is more well known and tested.
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Yeah, but HTML5 needs a webbrowser that may have an Adblocker and then you cannot do tracking and you βcannotβ earn money. Also all (client side) features are potentially available for anyone and anyone can provide userscripts to improve your webpage for free.
If you wrap it in an App, itβs against the DMCA (or your local equivalent) to reverse the App and disable the tracking. Or make a better version, or enable some features that are purely client side and you just decided to paywall into a subscription to earn more money. Or generally do anything that might hurt your current or future profits.
Boy, imagine when that idiot finds out about iphones and android!
Welp, that's an opinion one can have. whatyoujustsaid.gif
More wishful thinking of this person than fact. The more to SPA and all the focus on javascript frameworks is more likely to be related to this shift than linux. But I get it, the writer knows that the ground is shifting and is trying to connect things that they and other people dislike.
I wonder why so many people bundle Electron when you can make your app run in any browser. Like, you can totally write a program that just launches the browser and makes it load a site from lokal storage
Electron (and Tauri, and Neutralino) also offers some deeper OS integration stuff that browsers don't do or actively block; direct file management, USB peripheral control, that sort of thing.
But for something like Discord, you're totally right. You just need the browser.
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You need to put this in clear [JOKE] tags, otherwise they'll never get it.
VSCode is super light on resources on linux, I have two running right now and they don't break the top ten on btop (often). It can be done right, rarely is, but it can be. Generally electron is badly used, probably a skill issue, seeing as the skill is locked behind useless documentation, proprietary BS and whatever, but the ppl who made it actually make it work, might be black magic or chicken sacrifice...
Someone's actually gonna take this seriously, and they're right.
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Fascinating. Please carry on.
Yeah, not because they saw a way to develop for Win/Mac/Linux/Android/IOS all at the same time and went yeah, we'd take some of that.
Naw, They REALLY wanted to dip their toes in that 2013 extra 1% of traffic pool.
I have this sudden urge to do an FLTK project.
Regardless of the stuff that needs to be done for crossplatform development, building a native Windows version without looking at Linux isn't hindered by Linux at all. That's like saying you can't drive your car because another car exists.
@kirk781 no, it is not because of linux support. It's only because managers hiring web developers instead of desktop apps developers. Because.. managers do not see real difference, but see some stylish web design.
Microsoft ruined cross-platform desktop apps many years ago in early WPF/Sliverlight/XAML era by ceasing Moonlight project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight/_(runtime)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120716033915/http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/moonlight-list/2011-December/001392.html
So there is no reason to blame Linux that we do not have modern cross-platfrom toolkit for GUI apps.
Microsoft decided to make new XAMP/UWP incompatible with classic widgets GUI and kill classic GUI in WinRT/Win8 era, Microsoft decided to make XAML GUI Windows-only and cease mono developement entirely, not providing any GUI supportt
Why did you cut out the author's name? :)
I found the article and the comment, if you're curious:
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