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by rv11 3583 days ago
Well, you are getting cross platform almost for free. It is a pain with other such frameworks.

Spotify, steam , brackets use these kind of tech, and I personally like them. somehow I find them fast, more stable( probably due to chromes multiprocess architecture).
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rtpg 3583 days ago
Agreed. Main issue is everyone's downloading Electron over and over to run the apps. Would be nice to have an EVM or something so that Slack could just be the ~1 meg or so of actual app-dependent code.
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kozak 3583 days ago
Windows 10 (actually, 8+, but never mind) has its own platform for "native" HTML apps. One more abstraction layer, and your app can run both there and in Electron.
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rv11 3583 days ago
Yes desirable, but I find most of these apps, modify the chrome code for their own needs. you can find their modified code , differs vastly from what electron/CEF offers. and example would be

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_F...

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creshal 3583 days ago
Not sure how well it'd work out in the wild, even if an app doesn't modify electron, Electron's native plugin ABI is rather aggressively versioned and you'd break them between every upgrade.

Maybe eventually the web hipsters discover what stable releases are and give us an electron branch that doesn't break everything every week, then it'd be more feasible.

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elmigranto 3582 days ago
If I remember correctly, Steam uses Chromium to render web pages and nothing else. And it does a shitty job of it, at least in supporting HiDPI screens.
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