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Zack @zack

Just read a blog post that summarizes my feelings about . I'm tired of seeing the posts about how bad it is, how devs who build with electron are the worst, etc.

It's a memory hog but solves a problem. It's easy to get started with and it's easy to convert an existing webapp to a desktop app.

And complaints about "it doesn't look native enough" never made sense to me. That's something only techies are actually worried about.

chronicbuildfailure.co/electro

Sorin Davidoi @sorin

@zack Electrino could solve most of the common complaints (at least on Window and macOS), but it is a huge undertaking and development seems to have stopped.

github.com/pojala/electrino

Zack @zack

@sorin That's a bummer. I wonder why it didn't get much uptake? If it could solve the biggest complaint against electron, I would assume it would blow up.

One of the suggestions in the article I linked was replace parts of Electron with . How well do you think that would work?

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Sorin Davidoi @sorin

@zack Would love to see that, though to make it compelling for developers they would need to re-implement (or re-use?) the developer tools.

It looks like they are working on something like this already - :servo: "Graphene: a runtime for building native apps in HTML".

github.com/browserhtml/browser

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