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4 years ago1Password 8 - Non-native feel
Like many Mac users, I was greatly disappointed to read that 1Password is moving to Electron. I firmly believe that Electron is a bad framework for app development, and the 1Password 8 beta does not ...
1P_Ben
1Password Team
4 years agoThanks again for sharing your thoughts on this topic.
Part of the initial argument as to why you swapped to electron in the first place was because you wanted to ship by September, and that was an important deadline to meet.
Deadline or not, we made our decisions based on what we believe is best toolset currently available to meet our goals. A deadline was one small factor among many.
Some Windows users may not have liked it, but i know a lot of windows users who did like it and thought it worked incredibly well.
Certainly. 1Password 7 for Windows works and is liked by many. That doesn't diminish that 1Password 8 is a huge improvement in a number of areas, including many that were frequent requests from customers. The majority of our Windows users writing in about it agree.
I hope that helps clarify our stance a little. Either way your voice has been added to a report we have filed requesting alternative front-end tooling.
Ben
ref: dev/core/core#9286