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by rubenfonseca 2018 days ago
Cool! This battle was won. Now the next one: kill Electron.
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Good luck with that. There is no good alternative to Electron yet.
There isn’t a good flash alternative either, but that’s gone too.
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.

My web browser is one.

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

What's wrong with electron apps? I thought it was cool because they're a good way to make things cross platform.
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?
Ahhhh yes the much better solution of paying Apple 1000$ to compile a JavaScript app and 125$/yr

/s