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by Not_a_pizza 2622 days ago
Have you considered the security and memory footprint implications of using electron? I totally carry your base concern for making this, but electron would not generally my first choice for making most apps.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-6765...

https://medium.com/commitlog/electron-is-cancer-b066108e6c32

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Not sure about that first link. Electron is now on version 5.0.0....

There is a trade-off when it comes to using languages I know better (web languages) to make apps. They are larger memory footprint than native apps.