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 No.19059

People love to moan about Electron, but is there any practical alternative to it?

 No.19060

>>19059
fbi.gov works better and is more user friendly…

 No.19061

>>19060
You mean the webapp? Yeah just using the browser makes more sense than downloading a whole other browser instance just to use a site.
Vieb has a neat thing call erwick mode that lets you containerize stuff. Vieb is still pretty early in development tho, and it's chrome based (cringe)

 No.19062

>is there any practical alternative to it?
Electron is literally a Chromium tab.

 No.19063

libqt and libgtk are always there
I think Electron is popular because it's just more intuitive to design in HTML+CSS+JS for most people

 No.19072

>>19059
No, unless windows and mac does flatpak or snap as well.
Maybe with the further development of ai it can make porting programs automated or atleast easier to accomplish.

 No.19073

>>19072
Does Electron solve deployment issues? Isn't snap and flatpak full of Electron apps?

 No.19074

>>19061
Yeah, but users ask for an app and complain about needing to use the website…

 No.19080

Not sure why OP needed to ask for alternatives when even Wikipedia page for it tells you the alternative is progressive web apps.

 No.19081

>>19080
That doesn't sound like it would solve the problems.

 No.19082

>>19081
Why?

 No.19083

>>19082
It's still browser based…

 No.19085

>>19074
Sure, but like these days mobile browsers have the thing that let you add the page to homescreen, optionally hiding the url bar. Basically an app.
>>19083
Isn't the issue more so that it's specifically chrome based?

 No.19087

>>19085
Partly, another issue is that it runs a whole isolated instance of a browser instead of using the browser you have installed.

 No.19089

>>19085
The usual issue I hear about is that it is "bloat", it includes tons of stuff that are not actually needed for the actual application itself, but you still get it because you include a full browser.

 No.19090

>>19061
Oh I thought you were talking about element/matrix

 No.19109

>>19063
Qt has a dual commercial/GPL license, the commercial one is one of the most expensive licenses I've seen, so it's an instant no-go for most commercial software, especially for free as in beer desktop applications like VS Code. Also electron allows your boss to recycle javascript code meant for browser clients, so it's a no-brainer really.

 No.19223

>>19059
yeah, desktop app written in C++ or Java and whatever GUI framework you want


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