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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What do you mean, "most?" Electron apps are the vast minority of desktop apps.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Electron apps are the vast minority of desktop apps.

"Not for long!" - Multiplatform programmers

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are probably referring to the amount of progressive web apps that are out now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

As long as you don't check the task manager.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

by market share (vscode)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean look at the most used applications these days, discord, Spotify, teams, steam, vscode, slack, etc

They might not all exactly be electron but theyre all secretly browsers.