@tanepiper could not agree more! Electron's irked me since day 1
@JungleGeorge24 The funny thing is, it was completely a step backward. A decade ago I was building Adobe AIR apps that were small and compact. Microsoft's dominance in the 90s killed the idea of a WebView for desktop and Chrome is a poor replacement for it.
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@tanepiper @JungleGeorge24 AIR/Flex were fantastic, QtQuick is still excellent, and XULRunner could have been the compromise solution that kept us from our current reality.
But people got horny for Node.js and V8 and while they’re happy to write HTML to make a desktop app, they weren’t happy to write similarly structured XML (in the form of XUL) because XML is for old people or something.
@ZiggyTheHamster It's the namespaces. The need to write `xmlns` on everything just sucks the life right out of people.
@mtomczak you could do it once on the root element and then just reference it. But then you have to be okay with the idea of mixing and matching namespaces. <a href=“…” dc:title=“a title in Dublin Core”>xxx</a> being legal is something that is not thought about with JSON.