▲ | willywanker 4 days ago | |
They have a pre-emptive defense of Electron linked to, that others have refered to here. The criticism of Electron apps isn't merely RAM or sluggishness - it's the modern tendency to completely shit on mature, established, efficient and muscle memory based desktop UI/UX conventions that have been around for decades. I don't see what this offers over Clementine on Linux - it offers complete local music collection (remember that?) management as well as adding streaming sources & Last.fm integration in a sane, desktop focused UI like there once existed. No gigantic fonts and icons and wasted space that's more served for a mobile UI, and all that before the idiocy of using Javascript as a hammer for every damn thing instead of what it originally was as a means to add some interactivity to a webpage. Then again, modern devs don't seem to care about the actual end user experience, this person essentially claims Electron is superior because Javascript and frameworks based on it are all he knows or cares to learn. |