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Electron apps: web browsers in a trenchcoat

https://ssg.dev/electron-apps-web-browsers-in-a-trenchcoat/

by sedatk • 4 days ago

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fishfasell• 4 days ago

In the age of AI, I very strongly feel Electron will succumb to eventually fading into obscurity. It's clunky, resource intensive, and a PITA to work with. Getting Claude or other frontier models to write a WinUI/ Swift app is going to be common place and preferred over Electron for most use cases. Electron filled the gap of being able to write desktop apps but only being armed with JS knowledge.

A company I worked for wrote a kiosk app in Electron, which was a focal point of the business. The pains the devs encountered with development and support is a perfect example of "just because you can write it in JS doesn't mean you should"

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