There is also the advantage of an army of web devs who can build somewhat functional software for the desktop day one.
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Feyd@programming.dev 1 week agoThere are plenty of cross platform frameworks and libraries that don’t involve web tech
dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
We were laughing at Java back in the days. Now they use JS instead…
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
There are, but few of them also work on the web as an alternative to the desktop. Writing one shitty web app and offering Electron wrapped versions of it gets you a webapp, a Windows app, a Linux app and a MacOS app. And you already have web devs on the team because everyone does.
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 1 week ago
I hate that you are right. Giving up electron would likely mean less Linux and mac compatibility. It’s a shame, but it’s likely true.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
For commercial software, definitely. It’d be web and MAYBE Windows unless there’s a Qt nerd spearheading the project or something.
FOSS is actually better off here IMO, since it’s done by people as passion projects, so there’s no need to pinch pennies by eliminating target platforms. HOWEVER there’d also be more need for the devs to have different platforms to test on.