still fighting nixos to stop building electron
r2modman, vesktop, and obsidian are the things these 3 electron versions are dependencies of
it's got me thinking about why i dislike all these electron apps
electron, according to devs, is great - it's all the advantages of a desktop app and all the advantages of a web app, right? you get the rendering and layout engine for free, you can write lots of fancy html and JS, but you can also access files and do other desktop things
but as a user?
it's all the disadvantages of a web app (slow, unresponsive, extremely large, and in niche cases like mine extremely computationally expensive to build) and none of the advantages of a web app (all in the same shared window, with one process running all these apps) with some of the advantages of a desktop app (accessing files and global hotkeys and such)
@MindmeshLink i almost always purrefur running the app in an actual browser tab
@aescling Yeah. I'm getting to that point with Discord honestly
Obsidian and r2modman require file access though, so