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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can still have separate processes and everything else with a shared runtime, you just save having all this wasted storage with every application bringing its own bundled runtime.

  .net or Java applications work in a similar way, one Java app crashing won’t take out another just because they’re sharing the same runtime

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  • rdri@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d rather not have frameworks based on web browsers. Programming is not that difficult.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For most uses of electron I’d agree, but if some engineers are going to use it anyway, I’d prefer the approach I’ve described.

      Programming is not that difficult.

      Learning how to do something in a new language and framework isn’t that tough, I agree, but no one is going to become an expert in something overnight. I don’t reckon many desktop native engineers are choosing electron unless they actually need it, so if you imagine the case of an expert web engineer building a UI, they’re going to do a much better job with their main skillset than something they have just learned.

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      • rdri@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        but no one is going to become an expert in something overnight

        It’s not like they need to become experts. But also that’s actually possible (at least the effects of that), especially with all the AI around.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well obviously it is, or we wouldn’t have electron in the first place.

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      • rdri@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We have it only because some devs are lazy.

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