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by ondrek 1741 days ago
Yes, Electron has a huge amount of problems (bundle size, speed, feeling, native APIs..) but all are solvable.

With a right approach, some Webassembly improvements and Webkit iterations all could vanish.

On the end of the day, Slack and Visual Code Studio are great apps from the user perspective while features, design and business model play much important roles in choosing the software compared to the underline tech stack.
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cosmotic 1741 days ago
Some users may think Slack and VS Code are great apps. I sure don't.
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Fire-Dragon-DoL 1739 days ago
It's not great, but every irc client I used is dramatically worse.

Vs code is a good editor. Not exceptional, but good.

I'd also argue that the need to feel "integrated in the o. s." is actually relevant only for a small subset of apps, anything that's used full screen doesn't need any of that and it's better served by creating its own "mini universe"

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