▲ | ryandrake a day ago | |||||||
I so strongly wish more developers gave even a single shit about this. The current state of desktop app development is truly an embarrassment. | ||||||||
▲ | LauraMedia 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
There is a deeper problem in this: The DX for native applications is too annoying, undocumented or hard for most people. I tried to build some of my tools without Electron, it's always a battle of multiple documentations for multiple systems and creating a bespoke system or having to deal with UI documentations that are glorified API references without examples. The last few tools I built used PhotinoNET, which gave me an electron-esque framework but not bundling it's own chromium, instead using the browser already on the system. And even that required a complicated build script so I can just export a simple flatpak, exe and dmg... | ||||||||
▲ | malnourish 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Who is embarrassed? What are the realized harms? | ||||||||
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