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Comment by cercatrova | Hacker News Reader

Sure, but the pendulum has swung so far in the "I optimize for dev time not server time" that people are forgetting how to write fast, efficient programs, and we the end users have to put up with that garbage like Electron.

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There is this meme that Electron is so bad but as an end user I have much better experiences with Electron apps like Slack and Discord then I do with Microsoft Teams or other competitor apps that don’t use Electron.

Is Microsoft Teams supposed to be the fast, efficient alternative because I don’t think so...

Teams also uses Electron FYI.

Haha guess it wasn’t such a good example then, I had no idea. But I do think Slack or Discord works as well as native Mac apps from the user perspective. I can’t really tell the difference between Atom and say the old Sublime Text or Textmate. If you told me they were all Electron I’d believe you other than Textmate being so old that it couldn’t have been when I used it

Teams is also an Electron app.

Oh I had no idea, thanks

The problem with Teams is that Teams doesn't have to sell based on user experience. Its sales pitch is "you already paid for an Exchange server or Office 365, so this is ready to go".

Electron afaik wasn't created because "people forgot" but because it's by far the easiest way to create a platform independent UI that's heavily customisable.

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