Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version
Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version
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Aaaand it's electron garbage.
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Out of the loop, what's wrong with electron?
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It's basically Chrome. It's not a real application, it's a website pretending to be one. It uses a metric fuckton of RAM and eats your battery faster than Prince Andrew a minor.
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If Firefox could allow their engine to be packaged like this I'd use it. The problem I see here is chromium. Everything is a trade off and we need more ways to build maintainable cross platform applications.
Slack, for example, is Electron and it runs great. One of the best apps I've used. And it works better than the browser version...
The hate on Lemmy of electron is a bit of an overreaction if you ask me. Yeah it uses more ram than is necessary but again everything is a trade off. Not everything can be a hard to maintain rust app. Let's try to embrace cross platform solutions, though yes fuck chrome/google, so sure criticize that part of it.
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There is Tauri which packages it with WebKit and uses Rust as backend.
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I think tauri uses the OS web view, so it depends
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I just checked, and it seems that it indeed only uses WebKitGTK on Linux
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Let’s try to embrace cross platform solutions,
[JavaFX has entered the chat.]
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I don't know what javafx is, but java is hell. For me. I'm glad it works for others
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I don’t know what javafx is
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