Electron 1.0 is here
I'm happy and grateful for any and all open source software, because it enriches everybody, well beyond the scope of its creators. But someone has to say it:<p>Electron is the cancer that is killing desktop computing.<p>It all started years ago with Firefox, whose interface itself was built using web technologies, in a "brilliant stroke." DOM, CSS, Javascript... maybe not HTML per se, but an XML substitute, and so on. I dare anybody say that Firefox's interface has ever felt as fast as IE, Chrome, Opera, or Safari (on Mac.) It never did and still does not.<p>Then someone at GitHub had the bright idea to take this "winning" concept and apply it to a developer's text editor, of all things! I still cannot fathom how Atom can have more than 3 users. Every time I've tried it, I've ditched it after 30 seconds. Slooooooooooow!<p>Fast-forward to 2016: now I see new Electron apps popping up every other day. Even something as simple as a text-only WhatsApp IM client, which could be written in a dozen of C++ files, is a bloated monstrosity that eats RAM for breakfast and contains an entire Node.js interpreter and a Webkit layout engine.<p>Cancer, I say!<p>Kill it with fire!