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by throwaway49496 1229 days ago
If the users don't want an Electron app, they won't use it and the developers will feel the need to change their ways.

Software development is not just about the users. Many Electron apps are single dev ventures. It's not easy to maintain multiple different platform specific apps even for a large enterprise. The larger the app the more difficult it becomes.
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palata 1229 days ago
> they won't use it

Except for all those popular Electron apps with lock-in effects, like Discord and Slack.

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throwaway49496 1229 days ago
Seems like the users think it's better to accept the performance degradation than to switch apps.
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palata 1227 days ago
Does it? My feeling is that users use whatever you give them. And then they buy a new device because theirs is "becoming slow". They don't say "wait, Slack is just a glorified IRC, it should work on my iPhone from 2008, I will just refuse to use it" because they need it.

There are no alternatives to the Slack ElectronJS Desktop app. That's the whole point: they don't want to maintain native apps. And they don't open their API to let others do it, I guess because that may hurt their lock-in benefits.

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scarface74 1229 days ago
> Software development is not just about the users

And this says a lot about why people prefer commercial alternatives.

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