There is nothing wrong with electron , it allows you to make good clean looking desktop applications that work on many platforms. As well as that the ram usage has been consistently decreasing with each update.
Find a problem with electron
Adrian Flores
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Lucas Nguyen
for devs:
>requires JS
for users:
>bloated (large size, much CPU & RAM usage)
>no concurrency
>bad performance overall
In the end it just wraps a website, so you could as well make a website and use some modern APIs for more. You get a larger and more happy userbase.
See youmightnotneedelectron.com
Camden Brooks
The problem is there is not really any alternatives when it comes to making something that actually looks good. Im sure someone will tell me how you can rice out some gui lib but thats not the same.
Thomas Cruz
You forgot:
for everyone:
>security holes in old chromium versions just waiting to be exploited
The problem is that webfags think they can dictate what looks good, while in reality native applications look best to non-autismos
What's more important is that the feel is more important than looks and that's where electron falls short
Christopher Bailey
>youmightnotneedelectron.com
Half of the stuff is unfinished, removed or deprecated, like with the battery API
Jace Williams
JavaFX seems to be the only thing that can come close but I dont know java so......
Isaiah Brooks
That looks like shit. Stop creating non-native applications. Nobody cares for half-assed custom branded faggotry based on Teleriks shitty themes.
Charles Bailey
"Native apps"
Nolan Ramirez
>using Tk
That's what you get for using a command language to create software.
Thomas Miller
qt sucks just as much ass.
Mason Martin
Windows just looks like crap. Tk, Qt and GTK software look alright on Linux with proper themes.
Dominic Jenkins
That's where you are wrong kid.
Anthony Hughes
>Windows just looks like crap.
Actually, if done correctly, it doesn't.
Now, homOSeX, on the other hand, that looks like crap.
Jayden Wilson
qt is pretty much like html and css, and you can make it look like any electron if you want to
Benjamin Smith
It's kind of amazing how MS provides all the tools necessary to actually create solid apps and yet devs consistently fuck it up.
macOS has gotten far easier to create a great experience on over the past couple of years. Linux is really the only platform lagging behind in this case, and will forever be just a dumping ground for cross-platform electron apps.
Carson Perry
I really wish to use qt user. I really do, but it is a clusterfuck, I still don't get the difference between Qt, QtQuick, QML, the billion bindings for a billion languages, the weird licensing scheme.
I'm a KDE user and I would really like to develop proper Qt apps for KDE.
Ayden Anderson
Thats one of the main reasons I just steer clear of it.
Colton Jackson
I think it’s great for not very serious applications. But the end product is still very clunky and slow.
Jaxson Walker
No security updates.
Charles Rogers
every user in this thread
Juan Harris
>there is not really any alternatives when it comes to making something that actually looks good
gtk+
Jonathan Young
is this electron thing the reason why nu-programs now are all adopting this 'flat' design?
Mason Cook
More like a 'fat' design if you look at memory usage
Jeremiah Perez
Does gtk work on windows user?
Benjamin Wilson
Jordan Martinez
Is this a good idea?
>the browser download the whole frond-end JS client of a site/service and cache it, so you don't have to download everything every time you reload or open the tab
>the site use versioning for the front end so the bowser can update the app
>detachable UI "tab" so it looks like a stand-alone app
Lincoln Roberts
I mean does the stuff even look nice on windows? As well as that I would have to compile pygobject
Benjamin Peterson
That too
Isaiah Rogers
>does the stuff even look nice on windows
I don't think so (I don't think most Windows programs look nice)