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I don't personally develop anything using Electron. But given it's popularity as a way to build desktop apps, it seems reasonable that people are concerned even though they haven't also blocked QT or React


I think the concern should be on why the electron devs found it appropriate to use a private API, which is against App Store guidelines, risking/preparing rejection for any app using their framework.

The rejection of private keys used, by frameworks, is in no way new (2009 [1]) or misunderstood.

I find it very difficult to understand why Apple is getting any blame/concern for enforcing the violation of a very very old requirement.

[1] 2009, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1773615/apple-and-privat...

> The reason this has become news recently is the creator of a framework used by several apps used a private API, so when developers who included his framework updated their apps, they were rejected

What’s old is new.




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