Electron and the decline of native apps ↦
Mac users don’t care about mac apps like they used to. Today and the future is a web platform world with JavaScript at the center morphing into this gigantic blackhole (mainly a gravity metaphor) with everything else being pulled into its orbit.
The more Mac users there are, the more Mac apps we should see. The problem is, the users who really care about good native apps — users who know HIG violations when they see them, who care about performance, who care about Mac apps being right — were mostly already on the Mac. A lot of newer Mac users either don’t know or don’t care about what makes for a good Mac app.
John Gruber also quoted SwiftOnSecurity regarding Microsoft’s switch to Chromium as Windows’s built-in rendering engine, saying:
This is the end of desktop applications. There’s nowhere but JavaScript.
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Jerod Santo
Bennington, Nebraska
Jerod co-hosts The Changelog, crashes JS Party & takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.
2018-12-08T15:49:37Z ago
From the tweet that Gruber linked to:
This is exactly what I was talking about on the Buttercup show! It makes a lot more sense to have the operating system vendor do this work than 3rd parties, which perhaps turns my bad idea into a good idea?