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by rubenfonseca 2018 days ago
Cool! This battle was won. Now the next one: kill Electron.
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speedgoose 2018 days ago
Good luck with that. There is no good alternative to Electron yet.
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willis936 2018 days ago
There isn’t a good flash alternative either, but that’s gone too.
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angry_octet 2018 days ago
As long as bad alternatives keep getting accepted good alternatives won't get enough traction.

If corporates started banning Electron (i.e. Teams#, Slack 'thick' installs) there would be motivation to come up with something better.

# Wormable interactionless RCE via Teams (Electron) a few months ago and they refused to acknowledge it.

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kevincox 2017 days ago
My web browser is one.

Although luckily most electron apps are available on the web as well.

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MeinBlutIstBlau 2018 days ago
What's wrong with electron apps? I thought it was cool because they're a good way to make things cross platform.
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rchaud 2017 days ago
Most electron apps look and behave almost exactly like their web app counterparts. It reminds me of early mobile apps that were basically a wrapper for a "m.domain.com" website. So what even is the point of creating a desktop version?
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thanksforthe42 2018 days ago
Ahhhh yes the much better solution of paying Apple 1000$ to compile a JavaScript app and 125$/yr

/s

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