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Comment by Sir_Cmpwn | Hacker News Reader

Gosh, please stop making these. I'm not even going to pretend to have anything but disdain for this project. There's a serious lack of engineering accumen among the users of Electron.

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I don't know how you could expect the project's developer(s) to read your comment and gain anything positive from it. It's a thinly veiled rant / grab at votes. There are a lot of ways you could be more constructive, and you decided to not go with any of them. :)

I don't. They're 2000+ commits deep into this mess, it's not like they're going to change course now. I'm hoping to discourage everyone else from building similar projects.

Easy there, this is someone's personal project- you aren't being forced to use, evaluate, contribute to, or provide a review. You should focus on your own goals and excuse yourself from topics of discussion you don't care for. Someone on the project is likely reading this and -not- feeling good about your needlessly hateful comments. Next time just keep it to yourself and move on.

No, if I don't speak up, these bad engineering practices proliferate and the ecosystem gets worse. Sorry, but people are going to be called out on their mistakes and that's fine.

> There's a serious lack of engineering accumen among the users of Electron

I'm not a fan of Electron, but I don't see this correlation at all.

Using the wrong tool for the job is a reflection of a engineer's skill.

If people can be productive and efficient with VSCode or Atom then it's not the wrong tool at all.

You can be productive driving nails with the handle of a screwdriver, too!

If Atom is any benchmark, plugins will be created, abandoned, forked, abandoned and then the API will churn breaking everything every so often because "change is cool." It's the same segment of programmers with 0-6 months of experience whom can't be bothered to delve deeper into computer science, professsional software engineering or static compilation. Instead, just waste everyone's RAM and processor cycles with inefficient interpreted scripts and also bounce from shiny tech to new shiny tech.

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