You, I like you. Value to user comes first! Preach on brother! On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/02/18 16:53, Bob Hood wrote: > >> I want to thank all the respondents for such an interesting discussion. >> >> I think René made some interesting observations regarding the massive >> community support for JS in term of package managers, frameworks and UI >> toolkits. I think that is something that really presents a high bar of >> entry for QML, that everybody wanting to use it must basically roll their >> own. As I pointed out, coming from a widget-rich environment to something >> where I must create my own has always kept me from adopting QML as my >> cross-device framework of choice. I have to focus on writing the interface >> itself first before I can focus on writing my application logic.With >> widgets, I drop them in, and only focus on interface writing if I want to >> customize them. >> >> Nikos pointed out: >> >> Electron forces you to write the entire application in JS. >>> >> >> That kind of struck me. All of JavaScript's flaws notwithstanding, how >> could writing your application in a single language for all target devices >> be a bad thing? >> > My application is not the most important thing in my user's life. Many > developers think the app they ship is *THE* most important app for their > users. So it's OK if it eats up half a GB of RAM more and burns CPU cycles > for nothing, or runs like a pig on low-end or old computers, or looks alien > on their desktop. The app is so important that these sacrifices are > justified. > > The "my app is a precious special little snowflake, so it's OK" attitude > is what makes Electron popular. > > The user's life doesn't revolve around my app. It's just one app out of > dozens or hundreds they're using. If all applications were using Electron, > then each one of them would eat up half a GB more RAM, burn CPU cycles for > nothing and run like pigs on low-end computers, and computing would turn > into a shit-show quickly. > > Also, take off the developer hat and just view yourself as a user. Would > you like it if *all* your applications were suddenly Electron apps? (With > everything that entails, including their look&feel.) Great, huh? > > And no, you don't get to say "but not all applications are Electon apps, > just mine is, because it needs to." Your app *is not a precious little > snowflake*. > > So I wouldn't want to ship stuff that I wouldn't use myself, if I can help > it. The only Electron apps I use are those where I can't find any viable > alternatives. Surely that's not a good developer-user relationship to have, > if your users are just waiting for the first opportunity to jump ship. > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >
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