Wouldn't it be great if there was a way for all these electron apps to share the same runtime so people don't have to bundle it with their applications.
You know, I bet if the applications without the runtime are small enough, you could probably stream them directly from the internet without even downloading anything up front!
I guess that shared runtime would need some way to browse the applications....
^(vscode gets a pass)
It seems every new shiny technology today tries its darndest to short-circuit 40+ years of advances in OS virtual memory design. Between Electron and Docker, the entire idea of loading an image into memory once and sharing its pages among hundreds of processes is basically dead. But at least there's lower support burden!!!1111
At this point JavaScript is Java. Write once, deploy everywhere.
If I have to load elements from the web just to use the electron app properly, I’d rather use a web app and load the whole page each time and not have the tracking.
And no, my fellow PHP devs, “Native” PHP's also not it!
Folks in this thread complaining about Electron I think miss the point. It is a trade-off. It is designed to allow engineers who have a web dev skillset to write desktop apps. For those like me who want to write the occasional hobby app - it's great. It's also great for orgs to be able to have cross functional teams. Just like React Native allows this for the mobile world. This could be because they're small and can't afford specialist native engineers for each platform they want to support - or it could be that they want to spend their money in other areas and happy to trade off app performance. If it was as lean or as performant as native apps there would be a lot of people in this thread looking for work.
Well, people tend to pick the easiest way to achieve an objective, even though the solution is not simple nor optimised.
We use flutter and the app on iOS and Android look great. The web version looks and works like shit though
