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> Disagree. The "rise of Electron" is due to the ubiquity of the JS/HTML/CSS/Node stack, and many junior developers knowing nothing else.

with all due respect - hard disagree. in what place on Earth to Junior Devs make these types of decisions?? Or decision makers going “we got these Juniors that know JS so it is what is…”

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I don't believe they were implying they would make the decision. It's expensive to have your team learn new skills from scratch, and management won't want to pay for that if they don't have to.

I have been coding for 30 years now and I have never encountered a technical decision like choosing technology (e.g. Electron) for anything important to the company being made with "oh, we must use X because so and so knows X"

Maybe if there was a toss-up between X and Y or something like that but to flat-out pick Electron because you have people that knows JS is madness

I'm thirty+ years in too, and it happens all the time - particularly in smaller operations. Resourcing constraints, disinclination to provide training, tight deadlines, etc.

so interesting!! and scary :)

This is indeed what I meant. Thanks for stating it with more clarity than I was able to.

While that's not what the author meant - in all places on Earth where they people grow up and become powerful enough to make those decisions (but also before that , in their own little apps)

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