points by zdragnar 17 hours ago | 0 comments
It's worth remembering that electron was first released back in 2016 (formerly atom shell fro 2013) so Internet Explorer was still very much a thing.
Not a great justification, but it made a bit more sense then.
[–] 72deluxe 16 hours ago
[–] toast0 11 hours ago
> That's like saying it would make sense to make Internet Explorer work on all platforms. It doesn't make sense.
Why not? Microsoft released IE for win16, win32, wince, macos system 7 through 9, macos X, Solaris, HP-UX. If it ran on all those platforms, Microsoft probably could have supported it on any platform that had the capability of running graphical web browsers.
The solution is to use user interface toolkits that are available on each platform. For example, wxWidgets or Qt or appropriate bindings to them if you can't be bothered to write UI code for each platform you're targeting.