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by rayiner 267 days ago
Individuals used to make sophisticated native apps as shareware for $10 back in the 1990s and today big teams rely on crap like Electron. The enshittification of everything.
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inDigiNeous 264 days ago
Well, back in the day you had 4 megs of ram, MS-DOS and other OSes that are simple as they come, and full access to the hardware.

These days if you want to support macOS, Windows, Linux: I say good luck to you, Electron can save you there.

Electron is not crap, but many javascript developers are crap. You can make fast and memory efficient apps in Electron, if you know how to code.

(Note: Slack or Discord developers don't have that skill)

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