![]() There are some well optimized Electron apps, I agree however, they can be implemented in a much better and more native way, without being harder to install and/or update. I still remember when you had to have Windows to run most of the interesting productivity and development apps, so I'm pretty OK with extra overhead in exchange for the expanded support. no support off the dev's main OS (usually Windows), rather than Electron vs. The problem is everyone compares it to native, not acknowledging the dev's choice was probably Electron vs. That said, Chrome basically treats every tab as a separate browser instance, so Electron really isn't as bad as all that compared to a browser-based app. I think the Chrome apps were supposed to be essentially that, but didn't work out. The only real problem is every app needing its own, rather than using some sort of shared (but partitioned) app subsystem based around a central browser engine. Personally, I think the idea of a cross-platform application runtime with GUI capabilities is a good one, browser-based or otherwise. It's essentially using a browser engine in the same way as Java uses the JVM runtime, so all the performance arguments against that apply to Electron too-probably even more so given that the JVM is specifically optimized to be used that way whereas Blink/V8 is not. And in that case, hopefully the situation will make it easier for them to realize that is what they are doing, and give them the opportunity to decide if that's something they want to continue doing. The only situation I can think of where a poster is better off no even hearing about alternatives is if their main motivation is receiving praise on HN. I'm sure you're thinking of the more emotional aspects of this, and even here I disagree. With the usual caveats of civility that apply to literally every other comment as well, these stand to be highly productive comments. I see no problem with people posting similar projects. Do you really want to remove this chance to discover a better-fitting product/project/whatever from all the readers? Again, searching for this stuff can be difficult. Other similar projects may well serve any interested readers better than what was originally posted. Searching for similar stuff when you lack a very well-defined term can be annoyingly difficult.Īnd it has what I think should be obvious value to the readers and commenters who are interested in originally posted product. It can also give the original creator more information about what's been done and how. All aspects of this - from the ideas themselves to the community response to them - can be very valuable to the original creators of both. It can spark all sorts of discussions and ideas about the decisions and tradeoffs made in both projects. You mean leaving comments about highly related products/software/whatever with a different feature-set and approach? That sounds.
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