Not very found of them either but it’s hard to do without them, matter wise.
You mean native Windows and macOS apps? Because that’s what you’ll get, mostly.
That works for some apps but not anything that needs access to the filesystem and/or devices. Things like VSCode or mod managers, etc.
That works for some apps but not anything that needs access to the filesystem and/or devices.
Granting some application with a bundled ancient and insecure Electron build is insanity.
Things like VSCode
Luckily there are plenty of native source code editors out there, for example Kate.
You’re aware that Electron app have access to much more stuff than what you can do in a browser? Like, important, functional stuff?
Getting really tired of “this is just a website” approach. It’s starting to feel like /r/programmerhumor here.
Are you aware that a huge chunk, most likely the vast majority, of Electron apps don’t use all that and are just wrapped web sites?
@HenriVolney @Oha I don’t use a single Electron app currently. I might consider VS Code though.
I guess my pun got lost in everybody’s logics. Poor me, unable to connect with my fellow lemmys.
@HenriVolney I’m terribly sorry.
What does Ctrl shift I do (I’m not at my computer and I don’t have any electron apps installed)
Does it really have to? Vscode is built on top of it, I don’t think it’s ever opened chromium dev tools for the app (maybe I’m wrong?)
Some apps can disable it, I think Discord does so people don’t get tricked into pasting random scripts into the console
Open the dev tools in electron app that where so badly coded that they are not blocked as they should in the first place. In short, bad app developer makes bad apps, and people complain about the framework instead of complaining about the lazy dev.
Dude, if it doesn’t hog memory then what’s the problem?
It kinda do though. VSCode, without a project open has 10 processes running and uses over a half gig of ram. I like VSCode to be clear. I also like discord but it’s just a chat app and apparently needs a half gig itself and 6 processes.
I hope they’ll find a way to run all those applications in one browser. Like basically having a browser with multiple tabs but getting treated like seperate sandboxxed apps.
Browser already do this. At least on Linux all browsers use namespaces(containers) for tabs
You should come over to vim. It only takes 12 months of intense training and an additional 3 years of super glueing random rc file configs together before it works how you want it to
It is slow and usually anyway consume more memory than any native application built the same way due to it have to run a web browser. It is also taking up more storage space and updates are bigger and you need to watch out for we browser security holes. I think Electron have some limitations so you can’t do everything you want with it like a native application.
Does Firefox support desktop PWAs?
Not natively, but there’s an addon that works really well:
https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox
Some assembly required.
