[albeva]

Slow, sluggish, resource hungry and looks alien everywhere. Yeah right. Progress ... If there is one thing its done is lower standard for native applications everywhere.

[serge2k]

As someone above said, they have achieved what Java/Swing set out to do in the 90s.

[spiderfarmer]

Just like websites. They'll never succeed. /s

[izacus]

Just because something is "succeeding" it doesn't mean it's not bads qualitywise or it provides a good experience.

(Case in point - Windows Vista :P )

[blub]

Quality of implementation has some correlation with market success, but ultimately there are many variables involved.

Just the other day someone had detailed that they have a business based on Delphi with some ancient database. Can't be rewritten, but it brings in revenue.

[TeMPOraL]

> Just the other day someone had detailed that they have a business based on Delphi with some ancient database. Can't be rewritten, but it brings in revenue.

And quality-wise it's probably better than any alternative "cloud-based" solution they could buy these days.

[pritambaral]

Websites don't take up 30+ MB disk and 100+ MB RAM (well, not in Firefox anyway, and that's another thing Electron is missing: switchable runtimes and rendering engines, unlike the web)

[proyb2]

In a way, Electron is web enabled as a web browser and very stable across platform. Native application might not be 100% reliable.

[asadlionpk]

it's better to have a slow app out for users than having no app at all.

[toupeira]

Depends, it might prevent somebody from building a proper app because the slow one is "good enough".

[oceanswave]

Spoken like a true assembly programmer.

[mediochrea]

Yeah, because Facebook/WhatsApp can't afford a native desktop client.