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[-] mawkler@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure which is worse. I mean most desktop programs are just glorified web browsers anyway (i.e Electron)

[-] grue@lemmy.ml 62 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago

Electron apps are the vast minority of desktop apps.

"Not for long!" - Multiplatform programmers

[-] Simran@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

by market share (vscode)

[-] Rubennaatje@feddit.nl 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.

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