desktop-applications.md

Desktop Applications

Electron

From 2013? people started not bothering with native GUI's on desktop OS's. They wrote for "The Browser" and each application contained a whole chrome web browser. This eas bloted. e.g. Slack/VSCode/Discord.

• Microsoft is Finally Ditching Electron for MSTeams

• The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform

  • Native Desktop/Mobile - argued better exerpeince
  • Cross Platform Desktop/Mobile - consistent featurefulness
    • With a diverse portfolio and platforms it is difficult to keep a product 'in sync' with releases and internal comms
  • #electron

https://neutralino.js.org/

• Graphics for JVM

  • Desktop is still relevant
  • Java is cross platform
  • Electron is nice, but javascript is interpreted
  • AWT, Swing are slow and clumsy
  • Skia API (powers chrome) - if it's good enough for chrome, it's good enough for us

  • Ability to have multiple windows open at the same time is the desktop’s superpower

• A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js

  • many interfaces are going cross platform with #electron