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0 pointsstefan_5y ago0 comments

You keep mentioning Wayland as if it is the magic keyword that will strike fear into the heart of native app developers. That's just not a thing, it won't matter at all for your app.

The irony is that if you write a desktop app at one point, you will soon learn about all the things that Chromium doesn't do for you. Want to run some kind of privileged operation (since disk benchmarks came up)? Tough luck, there is no special pass for you on macOS just cause it's Chromium. And with the app sandbox, there are now lots of things that are privileged. This story repeats ten times for every OS you want to support, regardless of using CSS for your UI chrome.

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_odey5y ago

I mention it because that's basically what I keep reading related to it, the fact that it's incompletely implemented right now and some apps that used to work with X no longer do. Isn't it natural to consider it a potential risk for app development as well?

For the OS specific stuff that chromium doesen't handle, that's fair, hopefully I'll have to deal with as little of that as possible.

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_odey5y ago

For the OS specific stuff that chromium doesen't handle, that's fair, hopefully I'll have to deal with as little of that as possible.

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