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Electron....

Ok so recently I have seen many people hating on electron like here https://medium.com/@caspervonb/... ...

I understand that it may not be efficient or native whatsoever but it has specific use cases in which it is ideal. For example Discord (a teamspeak/Skype for gamers) is an amazing platform and they used to be web based. Eventually people wanted a desktop app for all these platforms so they used electron. i have used discords desktop app for 5 months and NEVER have I seen it go over 1 gig of ram or 3% of my cpu.

Electron isnt bad it just has specific use cases. Its like NoSQL, it's awesome but not for everything.

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  • 12
    Electron is awesome for rapid multi platform development.
    Its not usually a question of "will we write this with electron or in C?". It's usually more like "will we write this with electron or not at all because we don't have the time nor resources to make 3 native clients"
  • 2
    @Froot great way to put it!
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