It's still better than spending many months learning new language and not building anything functional at all. I would rather build something functional fast and see if it works and has demand.
If someone spend many months learning a new language, but still can't be able to build something functional with it, I think he has a bigger problem...
An Electron app is not equal to a native app when it comes to UX and UI. Right off the bat: they require more resources to run, thus making your computer slower, a laptops battery last less on a single charge, and don't look and work like native apps thus requires the user to learn a new paradigm.
So instead of you, the developer, using a couple of months to learn a new paradigm, you put that burden on your users, and end up with something that is a whole lot worse than standard native apps on Mac, Linux and Windows.
If you only have 1 user, that is no hassle, but if you have 5 million users, that is a whole lot of time that a whole lot of users needs to spend collectively because you are lazy and want to ship something fast instead of shipping something great.
And no, I have never tried a great Electron app. I don't think they exist.
> If you only have 1 user, that is no hassle, but if you have 5 million users, that is a whole lot of time that a whole lot of users needs to spend collectively because you are lazy and want to ship something fast instead of shipping something great.
Exactly. That's the externality a lot of software companies nowadays generate.
What are you talking about? Are you saying that because someone is adept at browsing Wikipedia or Hacker News, they intuitively know how to use Spotify and Slack and Atom?
