[blackoil]

Even with SublimeText, most popular IDE is VSCode, most popular interface design tool Figma, all popular chat platforms and so on are all electron based. If people were desperate for faster platforms they'll be migrating to them.

[eviks]

> Even with SublimeText, most popular IDE is VSCode

What a weird comparison, one is free, another one is a premium app, of course a lot of people prefer some suffering over paying money

[frumplestlatz]

Your mistaking supply-side path dependent outcomes that produce a lack of consumer choice with consumer preference. No consumer prefers slow, bloated, non-native software, but they're stuck with what they can get.

[aurareturn]

There is competition for Figma. Sketch.

There's plenty of competition for VSCode too.

Don't forget that these Electron apps outcompeted native apps. Figma and VSCode were underdogs to native apps at one point. This is why your supply side argument doesn't make any sense.

[eviks]

> There's plenty of competition for VSCode too.

But there isn't, not if you include all the extensions and remember the price

[aurareturn]

So an Electron app won. Seems like Electron wasn't a hinderance.

[eviks]

Sure, you can ignore that it was a hindrance just like you ignored ignored the previous point.

[aurareturn]

Like how you ignored my point too?

If it was a hindrance, why did it win?

Seems clear to me that Electron's higher RAM usage did not affect adoption. Instead, Electron's ability to write once and ship in any platform is what allowed VSCode to win.

[blackoil]

all the extensions followed popularity and ease of development. So, cart horse.