[8-prime]

I have thought about this and I'm not sure that Electron really is to blame here. It makes building an application accessibile, which means that there will be lots of apps built with it, many of which won't be any good.

Just like many native apps will also be horrible in terms of UX. Good apps are good. And I believe that it's entire possible to build an amazing app with Electron.

Although not everyone might agree, IMO VSCode is a great example of that.

[brulard]

I fully agree with this. Electron is hated here as if it was the source of all evil. When Electron came (and node-webkit as well), there were very limited options to create fully cross-platform apps easily. I tried multiple ways (including Qt) but it was very cumbersome and slow to progress. With Electron not only was I able to create a usefull app quickly, I could reuse almost all the code on web. Ok, it takes space and consume memory inefficiently, but thanks to Electron a lot of useful apps exist that otherwise wouldn't or would be much worse. Today Tauri or something else might be better choice, but hating electron seems really out of place.

[elcritch]

I dunk on electron, but it’s a love-hate sort of thing. There’s some great apps out there due to electron. VSCode is great. This http server is well done and looks handy!

Personally though I’m just greedy. I want the best of QT and Electron. Figuro is my attempt at realizing that. ;)

[brulard]

That's nice. Does it use the native components, or are you rendering that all lower level?