So, I love the role that Electron fits, but boy do I hate how much we discuss Electron itself.
What we should be discussing is providing the functionality of Electron without the cost. A protocol that behaves like React native. Ideally a spec, which any language can implement and provide a native UX to the end user.
Some projects try (ProtonNative, for example), but I've not seen one go quite far enough. I don't want to be forced to write a JS app to get benefits here. After all, with ReactNative, it's basically a process RPC to a bunch of widgets. `process <-> UI`. So why be forced to write JS? An open spec would do wonders here.
I've not invested cycles on solving this problem, of course. Yet I can't help but wonder why so many people are focused on solving UI issues with very narrow solutions like Electron, ReactNative, ProtonNative and so forth. They're great projects, but a slightly wider vision would make them amazing projects.
Thoughts? Am I missing something obvious?
What we should be discussing is providing the functionality of Electron without the cost. A protocol that behaves like React native. Ideally a spec, which any language can implement and provide a native UX to the end user.
Some projects try (ProtonNative, for example), but I've not seen one go quite far enough. I don't want to be forced to write a JS app to get benefits here. After all, with ReactNative, it's basically a process RPC to a bunch of widgets. `process <-> UI`. So why be forced to write JS? An open spec would do wonders here.
I've not invested cycles on solving this problem, of course. Yet I can't help but wonder why so many people are focused on solving UI issues with very narrow solutions like Electron, ReactNative, ProtonNative and so forth. They're great projects, but a slightly wider vision would make them amazing projects.
Thoughts? Am I missing something obvious?