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Besides shipping vulns, what category is Electron beating the rest in? Genuinely curious.

I'm in no way a fan of Electron and much rather use Tauri. But if you want something proven, wildly deployed and with the biggest community/potential support, then probably Electron is the best currently, just because of how old it is.

On the other hand, this isn't some web page you distribute everywhere an hope it's compatible. Those engines are self-contained, so if your application works, it works.

That’s correct for Sciter, but Tauri uses the OS’ browser engine, so you’re back to the hostile environment / unknown territory of the web.

People say this about using Apache as a webserver; I understand it, but don't know if I agree with it.

I'm running Apache for all my services and it's totally fine. It does everything I need and since I'm not running Fortune 500 websites or anything performance is more than enough. If it works, I don't need with it.

I'm not particularly risk-averse myself either, so I don't agree with it either. But I do know some are, so those seems to be the arguments in favor of Electron from that perspective.

Just a personal anecdote, I work in an industry that is extremely risk averse. I still use 300 baud modems every day. Apache is new-fangled nonsense.

300 baud modems? Over analog lines, VoIP, HF radio or what elese? Supposing it was not just an ironic answer, I would be pleased to know more about this!

Electron is irreplaceable if

- you want to cut the dev cost on support all platform - maybe MOST important

- you want Browser like feature - embed webview not iframe

- you want to make sure the feature is there, if you can not polyfill

Memory is cheap, download size is cheap.

See the sibling thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31765784

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