• FoxBJK@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Most companies aren’t going to develop the same app for different platforms using their native languages. We already saw where that leads; an entire library of apps that are windows only, because that’s all they have the bandwidth for.

  • Pyrozo007@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    If it means Spotify, Discord and others will just work on Linux at little cost to the developer, it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

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      1 year ago

      Except Discord doesn’t really work because they use an outdated version of electron and screen sharing does not work

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    4 years ago

    Had to do an assignment for university. Had to present some data in a nice way. It couldn’t be a website, had to be a runnable app. So, Electron it was.

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    4 years ago

    People like to shit on Electron, but the same time want an app for everything.

    IMHO it is unrealistic for most open source web based projects to offer native apps. Many try to provide an API for 3rd party developers to utilize, but other than that it is Electron or nothing really.

    Personally I don’t really see the problem in running stuff in the browser. That is more secure in most cases anyways.