Cross-platform GUI has always been a painful part of software development. Today the biggest horror for an old-school C developer is to look at the list of Electron apps on their website. Simple, often trivial utilities, each taking over a hundred of megabytes of disk space and consuming hundreds of RAM once launched. I’m not going to start a rant here, people of HackerNews have said enough on this topic. Electron wins because it is easy to use and everyone knows how to write HTML/CSS (unli...
