If indeed "every discussion of an app that uses Electron degenerates into snarky comments about Electron" then maybe it is time to look seriously at problems with Electron. I think it has a very good shot at lasting a long time, but in this industry things often do not go the way you think they will. Very likely, perhaps, but it is not "a fact of life", especially in the long term - Electron's popularity in the future is far from a decided fact. "It's a fact of life that Electron will become increasingly popular." However, I think it is a mistake to assume that you could not have learned anything of value from engaging with the person who left that comment (instead of assuming you already knew what the reasons behind it were.) I understand why you might be put off by the way the original comment was worded, and yes I would have preferred that they elaborate more about the reasons for their dislike of the choice of Electron up front. It's only a worthless comment to you because you made assumptions about why the comment was made.
You may disagree with their reasons, or the way they present them, but you still might learn something of value from hearing their list. If a developer does not like them, they usually have a particular list of reasons why. That is very rarely true about development tools, frameworks and libraries. Peoples likes and dislikes about colors are very subjective, and people often don't have any definable reason for why they like or dislike a color. Not liking the color blue isn't even close to the same thing. "'Ugh, the color blue! Me no likey!' Does it really matter why they don't like blue, or whether I agree with them?" If you don't want to bother asking him that's fine, but that doesn't make the question not worth asking to everyone else. Perhaps he has reasons for disliking it of which you are unaware. Also, just because there are a number of well known reasons why someone might dislike Electron doesn't mean that they are this person's reasons for disliking it.
There are most likely some folks reading who don't know much about Electron. "We all know why one might prefer something over Electron."Īctually, that's not true.
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