I often see people talking about the fact that they like a certain open-source application, but 'it's a shame it's on Electron'; what does this mean? Is it a privacy thing or a resource thing?

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[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People complain about Electron, but without it there would probably be even fewer cross-platform apps today

Some aspects of it might be less than perfect, but let's not allow perfect to be the enemy of good

Electron doesn't automatically mean that an app is bad, just like Unity doesn't automatically mean that a game is good

[–] Helix@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

Or you could just use the offline functionality built into browsers nowadays instead of Electron.