Every operating system contributed to the bloat. Windows has Win32, OS X has Carbon / Cocoa, Linux has X11 and various widget libs that sit on top of it. So it has been a perennial nut to crack to make cross platform widgets - wxWidgets, QT, SWT/JWT/Swing on Java, XMLShell (Firefox), Electron, GTK/GTK#, winelib etc.

Throw mobile platforms into the mix and it's an unholy mess. Lowest common denominator is HTML and so the likes of Electron "wins" even though it's bloated and slow.

No matter how fanboi-y a Linux or Apple user gets, they can never out fanboi a Microsoft fanboi. They take making shit up about competitors to a entirely new level.

Boy, imagine when that idiot finds out about iphones and android!

I wonder why so many people bundle Electron when you can make your app run in any browser. Like, you can totally write a program that just launches the browser and makes it load a site from lokal storage

More wishful thinking of this person than fact. The more to SPA and all the focus on javascript frameworks is more likely to be related to this shift than linux. But I get it, the writer knows that the ground is shifting and is trying to connect things that they and other people dislike into one big bad.

Eithet ignorant or troling

Welp, that's an opinion one can have. whatyoujustsaid.gif

VSCode is super light on resources on linux, I have two running right now and they don't break the top ten on btop (often). It can be done right, rarely is, but it can be. Generally electron is badly used, probably a skill issue, seeing as the skill is locked behind useless documentation, proprietary BS and whatever, but the ppl who made it actually make it work, might be black magic or chicken sacrifice...

Someone's actually gonna take this seriously, and they're right.

You need to put this in clear [JOKE] tags, otherwise they'll never get it.

Fascinating. Please carry on.

Yeah, not because they saw a way to develop for Win/Mac/Linux/Android/IOS all at the same time and went yeah, we'd take some of that.

Naw, They REALLY wanted to dip their toes in that 2013 extra 1% of traffic pool.

Why did you cut out the author's name? :)

I have this sudden urge to do an FLTK project.

That's such bullshit! Those supposedly cross platform shit are the least compatible softwares you can make! What can of idiot can pretend it's used because of Linux?

Regardless of the stuff that needs to be done for crossplatform development, building a native Windows version without looking at Linux isn't hindered by Linux at all. That's like saying you can't drive your car because another car exists.