Programmer Humor

The alternative to Electron not existing is that you have slower developed, clunkier software, that's buggier and has fewer features.

There is no magic bullet of being like 'just code the exact same thing in C'. There are tradeoffs to every development framework.

the problem isn't electron, the problem is that A) html is the only truly cross platform UI framework and B) that html (and the web stack in general) has way too many features and is way too complex, because Google's been bolting features onto it for decades.

Text editors are cool and all but it's literally impossible to find a real IDE that doesn't use AI.

LOL.

Enjoyable little irony personally for me, as when I asked an LLM to churn out a readme for my fin project ( posted on lemmy here ), it proposed one of fin's advantages that could push fin into the notable category: "Performance niche - might be faster than Electron-based editors for simple tasks". Maybe I should change that to "save a fortune on RAM compared to Electron-based editors".

Electron apps existed and were a standard years before this current memory shortage. There is no connection there.