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0 pointspnikosis4d ago0 comments

There's hope for the extinction of Electron based apps.

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smackeyacky4d ago· 4 in thread

They aren’t going away. They are an obvious answer to Microsoft GUI development being in the wilderness for 20 years.

Java has been right there all along like the awkward best friend in a romcom.

It’s funny to me that a lot of the initial dismissal of Swing was “it isn’t native widgets”. Now that’s seen as a positive.

And Qt. They even made QML with literal reactive JavaScript.

pjmlp4d ago

If only there were other options available, cross platform even,...

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