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by CyberDildonics 1091 days ago
relative isolation from your installed browser

What does this mean? What specifically do you think is being prevented?

The only other significant advantage is they are easier to jail/isolate for use with the likes of appImage, Snap and Flatpak/Flathub.

How is a program with hundreds of megabytes of dependencies easier than a single small statically compiled binary?

Again, not that I'm advocating for Electron specifically,

This thread was about people using electron even though users hate it.