It’s called electron 'cause it uses 10 times more electricity than your regular gui library.
This fundamental comparison seems right. But it’s curious that it neglects the mass of creativity and experimentation that came out of Flash–it wasn’t all the stuff that zombo.com mocked. (Also, these performance comparisons never seem useful to me because I can’t do my job without a browser open–so the perf comparison then fairly ought to be the marginal cost of Yet Another Tab.)
I kinda miss flash games, seems like a lot of the creativity that went into them isn’t there with newer js games (but maybe I’m just not looking now).
flash was super accessible for artists to get into. I wonder if the JS options of today meet that bar. I know there’s a lot of weird cool stuff going on today with visual novels and whatnot, but…
Funny that this was written in 2016, and its even worse today. Even every note-taking app is now an electron app that runs an entire browser in there.
Cool alticyle