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i am big computer nerd watch me do computer things for free on website
(i also do music/storywriting/"art" sometimes)
oh also i'm 22
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in reply to @SenshellShark's post:
It's hilarious because electron is basically just Chrome with extra steps, yet somehow they can't be maintained properly. Yet when you open the sites in a browser they restrict your experience and ask you to install the app.
When it came out, it was really exciting to see as a web developer that wanted to make some software too. But I also thought electric cars with self-driving features were neat. We all make mistakes.
Electric cars with self driving ARE neat… when they are built with safety over efficiency in mind. Which… [ checks notes ] Google does? Maybe? And no one else?
Even so, electric rail is better, and self driving cars will only every be functionally useful for "end point" transport, rural access, and disability accommodation.
I see electron as the same thing. A website as an app IS a good idea… when your software isn't very complex and you favor accessibility over reliability.
A major video conferencing, social networking, and chat platform should not be cheaping out on the codebase.
Well if those captchas are anything to go by, I haven't seen any of those asking people to select the squares that have pedestrians. Pedestrians and people on bikes deserve to be on streets more than cars do in my opinion.
But anyways... I'm glad I never really made anything in Electron myself. Web browsers have been and will continue to be complicated pieces of software. These days I've been using the Godot Engine to make small bits of software that I need. Building a working UI in it feels good.
Yeah, I haven't heard about Google's car project in years, which is why I said "Maybe" (and there were reports of engineers overriding the safety protocols anyways, lmao).
I myself don't really build much but when I do I try to keep it native — Best experience, best performance. But the right engine can be good too, for small bits of software!
I remember when Atom went from electron 1.x to 2.x and it literally never worked properly for me again.
And then vscode extinguished it.
I had been using Atom up until I learned it was being sunset. It seemed to work well enough for me but some plugins would just break over time. I would rather not learn to depend on vscode though I have learned it's a good editor. I would like a good FOSS alternative.