1171
My poor RAM... (loot.buckodr.ink)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
133 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Electron is awesome, badly coded apps just suck. Look at Voyager for Lemmy, it's great and it's just a web app.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No, it's not nice. Looks good only on Windows where everything have unmaching look anyway.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Uh huh. Electron apps look good on Windows. Sure.

    No electron app ever looks good anywhere. They are consistent insofar that they look shit on all OS, equally. And alias their fonts wrong. And scale them wrong. And break accessibility.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    They don't break accessibility. Electron fares better in accessibility than some native app frameworks.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Sure, there's always a bar to clear. And yet Electron can't even properly alias fonts if the creator doesn't do it properly, as it tries to use Chrome's broken font rendering by default. Nevermind scaling the size of anything, which just becomes a blurry mess if the app wasn't created well enough (see the mess that is Signal as an example).

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Voyager is made with Ionic. The difference with Electron is that in Ionic, trough Swift/Kotlin, shows a WebView from the System Browser (mobile only) while Electron “installs” Chrome each time (desktop only).

    WebApps are great, but Electron is just too much

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent