Electron got so popular because it meant you could write an application once for the web and then never have to care about cross-platform compatibility because that stuff is all taken care of for you. It had a great developer experience and a good-enough user experience.
I personally regret the rise of Electron because it's lead to slow, bloated applications that take half a gigabyte of memory instead of a few megabytes, but at the same time I understand why it's gotten so popular.
It's kind of like money -- the less you have, the more conservative you are with it. The more you have, the more you get conditioned to irresponsibly spend it and you start to care less about how much you are spending. It's not responsible, necessarily, but you've got enough to the point where you don't really care that you could be spending less; and I think that's kind of what's happened with the current problem of software bloat.
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Electron got so popular because it meant you could write an application once for the web and then never have to care about cross-platform compatibility because that stuff is all taken care of for you. It had a great developer experience and a good-enough user experience.
I personally regret the rise of Electron because it's lead to slow, bloated applications that take half a gigabyte of memory instead of a few megabytes, but at the same time I understand why it's gotten so popular.
It's kind of like money -- the less you have, the more conservative you are with it. The more you have, the more you get conditioned to irresponsibly spend it and you start to care less about how much you are spending. It's not responsible, necessarily, but you've got enough to the point where you don't really care that you could be spending less; and I think that's kind of what's happened with the current problem of software bloat.
Yes, exactly as you say