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by notthatharda 2408 days ago
Only if by users you mean people living in the terminal. Yeah, those people hate GUIs, compositing desktops and anything more than monospaced text. Just whisper "Emoji" in their ear and witness the Wrath of Khan unleashed.

I would say exactly the opposite, not using web-tech for GUIs is disrespecting the users, because the end result is an ugly app with a lot of missing features (gif/image/emoji support for example).

Users seem to love their VS Code/Discord apps written in Electron. I wonder why.
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bsagdiyev 2407 days ago
I don't want gif/image/emoji support in 100% of the apps I use, so this point is silly. I dislike Electron apps because they tend to break with the OS UI and force whatever the developer thinks I want on me. I don't. Stop it.
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pjmlp 2408 days ago
Because they offer a gratis plugin eco-system over the competition that outweighs the disadvantage of running a memory hungry application.

Other than VSCode, my computers are free from Electron virus.

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