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F*CK ELECTRON

A Bash on Electron.js

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Electron is AWFUL. It’s SHIT. It’s CANCER.

I’m not discussing it. It’s a fact, whether you like it or not. This article that I’m writing now is not meant to present my opinions and whatnot, it’s just a piece of information on why the people who think it’s not that bad are wrong and to point out why they are clueless about informatics and computers in general.

There are no pros for the society. There are pros only for the profit-making development businesses

There are NO PROS FOR HUMANITY.

Why is this piece of shit a piece of shit?

Because it uses a shitload levels of abstraction.

Basically, it all comes down to the fact that I am forced to use Electron apps in my daily (work) life. I've experie

Let’s have a

It gives companies with closed ecosystem like Apple an excuse to lock down their devices and not accept crappy software, like Electron-based turds. Teams on iOS is not Electron.

Examples of this piece of shit

Unfortunately, there are quite a few apps out there making use of that stupid framework. As of writing, these are some ElectronJS-based “applications”.

  • Teams
  • Skype
  • Visual Studio Code
  • pgAdmin 4
  • Insomnia API development
  • Balena Etcher

Other pieces of shit frameworks that aren’t as bad as Electron include Java

One closing remark

FUCK ELECTRON!

articles/electron.txt · Last modified: 2023/02/02 10:55 by sotosoul