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Discussion on: In Defense of Electron

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Alex Lohr

Electron is pretty wasteful, and still not portable to mobile. It is a wonderful solution to create applications fast when resources are only an unimportant issue.

Still, I believe it is bound to be replaced by something else in the near future, and that's progressive Web Apps that are augmented with some extra capabilities (requiring the user's permissions).

This way, the browser engine that runs them is already on the system and you can have graceful degradation by running those parts that doesn't work in the client on your server until it is supported.