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But then they wouldn’t work in the browser. There’s certainly a place for truly native apps, but there are also a lot of reasons companies keep picking Electro
by brokencode 11mo ago
But then they wouldn’t work in the browser.
There’s certainly a place for truly native apps, but there are also a lot of reasons companies keep picking Electron. Efficiency is just one consideration.
- niutech 11mo agoThey could, using Wasm, like Qt, Blazor Hybrid, Uno Platform, Avalonia.FuncUI. Electron is efficient for devs, but inefficient for users, being a memory hog, especially on low end devices.
- brokencode 11mo agoThey could do that today, but do they? I can’t name one app that uses one of those to run in a browser. I can name multiple highly successful apps that use Electron. I seriously doubt the approach of running a native desktop application in the browser would give you performance or usability as good as running an actual web app.