• macniel@feddit.org
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    11 days ago

    Have you heard of Java? Or any other language that abstracts away the GUI gluecode. Or don’t just even go electron and provide a web app instead.

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        10 days ago

        Mhm… Install 300mb once to run any Java application or 300mb for each and every electron app.

        Its an easy choice.

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          6 days ago

          As if the Java app won’t be even uglier than electron and still weigh in at 300 mb for each. Not to mention introducing security issues on your machine with the jre

          There’s a reason people stopped making consumer apps in Java

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        10 days ago

        I heard Java can compile down to native binaries now. I interviewed someone that told me, I haven’t written a line of Java in 15 years.

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          9 days ago

          It is not quite a native binary, but the effect of not having to install java to run it is the same. Using jlink you can assemble a runtime image containing the java bytecode for the application and a custom runtime enviroment containing the parts of the the jre needed to run that program.