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System
4 years agoSuper Contributor
Electron
This discussion was created from comments split from: 1PW8 for macOS.
zchrykng
4 years agoNew Contributor
I can't say that the transition to Electron fills me with warm feelings. Used too many truly horrible ones in the past and nothing that I would consider great. VS Code is acceptable because of how powerful it is, and code editors are semi-unique use case, but it still isn't great.
Honestly, if the things behaves like a native app and doesn't burn a ton of resources, I wouldn't care what you write it in. Electron is just scary because of how literally zero Electron apps feel native. Some can get away with it, but that doesn't make them good.
I'm not going to knee jerk cancel my subscription over this, for lots of reasons, but really hope things are improved drastically before it is actually released. Even something like the menu bar app being native with a native mini-app would make things better than they stand now.
As an aside, I think the beta for Windows is fantastic, but that is because the old Windows app wasn't anywhere close to the standard set by the Mac app.