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> Electron crap application

Sigh. Beyond the deeply unserious hyperbole, this is a no-true-scotsman. Yes, you can use native APIs in Electron. They can even help. That's not remotely an argument for not using Electron.

> the in-editor terminal makes use of WebGL

Right, because clearly the Electron-provided browser environment was insufficient and needed to be escaped by using... a browser API instead?

Again, folks, the argument here is from existence. If the browser stack is insufficient for developing UIs in the modern world, then why is it winning so terrifyingly?

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> Again, folks, the argument here is from existence. If the browser stack is insufficient for developing UIs in the modern world, then why is it winning so terrifyingly?

If McDonald’s hamburgers taste like warmed-over shit, why are they the most popular in the world?


Because some developers are bloody lazy.

Gen X and Boomers strangely enough managed to write portable native code, across multiple hardware architectures, operating systems and language toolchains.

As is an insurmountable challenge apparently, to master Web UI delivery from system services, daemons to the default browser like UNIX administration tooling.




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