• slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Because why go for native performance when you can go for minimum effort on all platforms.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 days ago

      When all you have is a hammer JavaScript, everything looks like a nail web page.

      Kids these days don’t bother learning languages that actually compile to native apps.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 days ago

        All of my degree was in C, C++, C#, Java, etc. and the one class I had that did web applications did Java backends and middleware with PHP frontends. It wasn’t until I got into the industry that I had to learn Angular, Electron, React, Django, etc.

        I don’t think it’s the devs making these decisions.

        • AnExerciseInFalling@programming.dev
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          10 days ago

          It’s the minimum effort that translates to minimum time that translates to minimum cost for the business. Why hire another developer for a mobile app (or another platform) when you could just have the same web dev write it. Or without hiring another dev, why have the same dev need to build up tooling in another language when you can just reuse from the existing platform

          • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            Exactly, that and the “we are a [insert product name here] shop” mentality. The things I have had to fight for over the years are mind boggling.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      0·
      10 days ago

      Because you want a cross platform solution?

      I get that electron can be slow, bloated, etc, but the amount of ire it draws is overboard.

      • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        Yes but sometimes, for example core parts of windows 11 like the start menu, don’t need to be cross platform and should be native, not a pwa