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Discussion on: Electron can be better [RANT]

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huncyrus

Hi,

Interesting "rant". Rather an interesting opinion and point of view.
I would like to add my personal opinions also.
I often work on different projects what uses Electron. I would say, its speed is depend, what and how you would like to achieve something. I agreed on that, littlebit weird and maybe overkill (or overhead) to have an enbundled browser engine what run headless for you and do the backend and frontend in the same time, but there is one huge advantage against any other solution: cross compilation. I compiled myproject under 5 minute into 3 different platform. And I was not forced to pollute with bloatware (java, .net...) the operating system, and did not required to set up the environment for it. Just run and use. Same experience, UI, workflow and abilities. (I know, I can do the same with C++ for example, but personally, I do build way slower any kind of UI on that language...)