| ▲ | bombcar 3 days ago | |
95% of portals could be done with 2000s tech (since they're basically CRUD apps) - the question is what it is worth to make them that way. And the answer is almost always "nothing" because "good enough" is fine. People like to shit on development tools like Electron, but the reality is that if the app is shitty on Electron, it'd probably be just as shitty on native code, because it is possible to write good Electron apps. | ||
| ▲ | eviks 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> but the reality is that if the app is shitty on Electron, it'd probably be just as shitty on native code Right off the bat it'll save hundreds of MB in app size with a noticeable startup time drop , so no, it won't be just as shitty. > because it is possible to write good Electron apps. The relevant issue is the difficulty in doing that, not the mere possibility. | ||
| ▲ | bitwize 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
When I think of good Electron apps, the first name that pops to my mind is Visual Studio Code. They really did a lot of work to make the editor responsive and capable of sophisticated things without blowing your RAM/disk budget. But it's still bloated compared to the editor I use, Emacs. And it's still bloated compared to a Java-based IDE of equivalent functionality. (Eclipse and IntelliJ can do much more OOTB than VS Code can.) | ||