Electron is Cancer

Ahhh get over it.<p>Electron is awesome. It lets me build powerful desktop apps in JavaScript. Nothing else lets me do that so well as electron.<p>And let me say something to you if you&#x27;re concerned about its memory usage:<p>Don&#x27;t use it. No one is forcing you.<p>If you don&#x27;t use it then you won&#x27;t need to whine about it.

Honestly, many apps could just as well be developed with red[0], maybe not in javascript, but with the smoothest cross-platform compilation I&#x27;ve ever seen.<p>Runs in 1mb of ram, and the download size of most apps made with it won&#x27;t exceed that either. It&#x27;s no C for sure, but it&#x27;s really amazing to have cross-platform gui-support bundled into the language itself (windows &amp; mac is ready, android and linux are in the works)<p>So yes, no re-use of webdev skills, but a really fun language, and immediate results - had I known about red before javascript, I would&#x27;ve never picked up JS.<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.red-lang.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.red-lang.org&#x2F;</a>

personally, i feel that &quot;X is cancer&quot; is a gross and callous sort of language to use.<p>i agree that electron is a suboptimal choice for a variety of reasons. however, one should probably ask a) why aren&#x27;t these electron-based tools written with another technology and b) would they even exist at all were it not for electron?<p>perhaps the answer to the &quot;electron crisis&quot; isn&#x27;t whining, but developing a new and better option (or renovating an existing one) that developers will actually want to use.

I understand the performance concerns but comparing a graphical IDE to a command line based text editor is rather dishonest.

It surely is. The new desktop Skype is electron. why?<p>I can see why it appeals to front end web devs who feel the need to play at writing desktop apps - but Microsoft of all places, where they have an <i>existing</i> native client, now decide to go backwards and use electron.<p>Makes sense I guess when you consider their whole revamp of the iOS app took a useful business tool and tried to make it into an app teenagers use to share photographs of their genitals.<p>Edit: On Mac at least, you <i>can</i> still get the pre-Electron Skype.<p>Go to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skype.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;get-skype&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.skype.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;get-skype&#x2F;</a>, pick &quot;Get classic Skype&quot; in the blue button&#x2F;dropdown combo thing.<p>You&#x27;re welcome.