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0 pointspjmlp5y ago0 comments

I have been writing cross platform software since 1994, there was no Electron back then.

Electron as idea of shipping a full browser alongside the application has already been born multiple times, just it got luckier this time with the amount of devs that aren't willing to actually learn anything else.

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benrbray5y ago· 1 in thread

Any solutions for cross-platform text editing + rich layouts? Afaik that's where native apps really run into trouble, as solo developers don't want to spend time re-inventing the wheel. (Nor should they have to). Especially on Linux, GTK applications really fall short of the Electron alternatives.

I'm building an Electron app based around ProseMirror, but would happily jump ship if there were a suitable cross-platform native solution.

pjmlpOP5y ago

Then use Qt, or do like we use to do back in the good old days, or as many still do on mobile space, wrap everything that can be made portable in C or C++ logic, using native views on top using MVVM patterns.

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