What is often missing from the discussion is the expected lifecycle of the product. Using Electron for a simple app might be a good idea, if it is a proof-of-concept, or an app that will be used sparsely by few people. But if you use it for the built-in calculator in your OS, the trade-offs are suddenly completely different.

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pjmlp 3 days ago | parent [-]

A large majority of Electron crap could be turned into a regular website, but then the developers would need to actually target the Web, instead of ChromeOS Platform and that is too hard apparently.

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Incipient 3 days ago | parent [-]

I've recently gone back to more in depth (but still indie) Web dev with vuejs and quasar, and honestly I don't even find myself thinking about "targeting Web" any more - I just write code and it seems to work on pretty much everything (I haven't tested safari to be fair).

	▲	jtbaker 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Vue is so good! I've been encouraged seeing more organizations mentioning using it (in the hiring thread etc.) lately.