Now I am not a web dev but I just stumbled upon Electron and envied all web devs.Seems fun being a web dev

Electron is awesome! An example is that VS code is built on it, it's not my favorite text editor with steroids but it's good

You don't have to be a web dev to do web dev. I a .net dev from 9 to five but by night I'm a node js and angular 2 dev using Electron and ionic as my build tools.

@Sykoah I am hoping to use my December leave to learn web dev.Which sites would you recommended. heard of www.scotch.io

@bdhobare that one is good, for node.js I recommend also rising stack and soshace

Oh man I love electron. Done loads in it

I know right ? I seriously envy the web developers too. They get to use Electron which is from the creators of Atom I believe which I'm a huuuge fan of

Quite a lot of nice programs (lets not use the word desktop app considering that word means something else on Windows now) apart from vscode and Atom use electron.
Slack, Git kraken, Nylas email, Brave browser.
So I'd say it's proven that it does work and doesn't have to be as slow as some suspected in the beginning.
I'm just waiting for someone to build an office suite.

My issue with electron is that it makes a 2mb app into a 52mb app.

@Artemix it's 99.99% as fast as native (or feels as such) on Linux..

I love it because it allows for more cross platform work/stuff that would never be ported to (Windows/macOS/Linux) otherwise

Electrons nice. I'm still against this whole "let's use javascript to build everything" mentality though.

Also, with most phonegap/cordova apps... if you're not using any mobile specific packages, you can easily import it to electron with only a few edits to the config.

@fyroc this is my one complaint as well with Electron. I wonder if shared libraries are a feature request or even planned at all?

Edit: not planned - https://github.com/electron/...

It is. Very.

I have been using Chrome Embedded Framework but the documentation is poor and scarce.I am just glad Electron is also based on Chromium and V8.And it has an active community.

Definately something I want to play with but just haven't had time to

It's all bullshit until you start building software as a service. Then being a web developer truly becomes magical.

@stable-penguin then explain it to me why atom is fucking slower than sublime?? If it was 99% fast as you say.. why should we bother with C/C++??

@theothergod why is ST slower than Vim? You can't cherry pick examples to prove a negative. "Best" is subjective, determined by preference, operating system, use case, and many other factors.

@stable-penguin you're losing the point here. All I want to say is that, it is under development so it's slow for now. It's not 99% fast as you told on previous comment. Try to run atom in low spec devices. Sorry for the comparison tough. I was just trying to prove my point here that though sublime has plugins and some stuffs written in python, it has it's core written in C. So, it has the edge over atom in resource management and performance.

@theothergod and I was saying, last time here, that's one example while trying to extrapolate to the population (entire ecosystem). As a whole, *my* personal experience has been great. Agree to disagree & done.