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by borisj
3226 days ago
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It seems hated by some developers such as yourself, yet users of electron apps seem to quite like them, a lot. Not sure how slack's,spotify's, and visualcode's success indicate a horrible user experience. What Qt application has as much reach as slack? Every GTK app I've ever used outside of GNOME stuck out as out of place with the OS. Maybe some Qt apps flew under my nose but I'd say the same about them, at least to the extent that they always made it obvious via certain UI elements that they were Qt apps. |
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VS Code presents a good experience and it's resource usage is more reasonable, it's a good example of a successful Electron application. On the other hand, it has Microsoft behind it and there's probably good reasons why it's so much more performant than Atom, for instance. I am not convinced it's reasonable to expect all Electron applications to hit this relatively high bar in terms of quality.
In my opinion, Electron applications "stick out" as much as any other non-native application, this isn't an advantage to Electron. Indeed, I think Electron has proven that people aren't all that interested in a native application, as long as it's reasonably attractive and the interaction is fun. This could open the door for a new class of cross platform UI toolkit, one that drops the faux-native UI in favor of something simple, attractive and straightforward.