On: It is fast or it is wrong

[Hendrikto]

> You are familiar with development system X.

> However, your users demand that your software run on platform Y. Platform Y doesn't support X natively. What do you do?

Use Electron apparently…

> One option is to refuse to learn the development tools for platform Y, bringing shims, transpilers and a bunch of other dreck needed to get X running on platform Y.

> But the user will notice the difference and not like it.

Exactly. I do not like it at all.

[ebiester → Hendrikto]

I don’t like it, but do you remember using QT or GTK apps in Windows or the X shim on macs? Was that really better?

[pseudalopex → ebiester]

GTK+ and especially Qt are still used. Both have had native rendering on macOS for a long time. It seems like some people compare the most polished Electron apps to the least polished examples of other frameworks.

[jcelerier → ebiester]

I'm pretty sure that you use a bunch of Qt apps on Windiws without even knowing it. Hell, even the official Microsoft OneDrive client uses Qt :-)

[ori_b → ebiester]

Yes. Especially for windows or the Core Graphics gtk port.