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by Macha 469 days ago
- Firefox addon to add WebUSB capabilities

Note this is beyond the capabilities of web extensions, you'd also need the user to install a cooperating native program.

At which point people are just going to make the native program an electron UI and bypass the browser entirely.

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why bother with electron madness when you have 20 minute job for pyqt.
Because pyside and PyQT suck in their own way. I mean sure if you only know python, or need python for other stuff, they are fine I guess.

I've had a rather big project (well, a proof of concept turned into a real project, the usual haha) built with pyside6 and looking back, I'd much rather have used electron/ts/JS. But we needed python for other stuff so I guess it made sense at the time.