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0 pointslillecarl4y ago0 comments

Why? You don't have to use Electron for everything, you can integrate using whatever language you want and some RPC, like Keybase did.

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toyg4y ago

And that's still more involved (and slower) than "just use this function that desktop vendors helpfully provided for the purpose".

lillecarlOP4y ago

That one part yes, but if you can build most of your application cross-platform and only do certain things with "native" solutions you might get better bang for the buck. Discord and VS Code comes to mind.

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0 pointslillecarl4y ago0 comments

Why? You don't have to use Electron for everything, you can integrate using whatever language you want and some RPC, like Keybase did.

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toyg4y ago

And that's still more involved (and slower) than "just use this function that desktop vendors helpfully provided for the purpose".

lillecarlOP4y ago

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