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Bad news, developers: Apple Mac App Store tells cross-platform Electron apps to get lost

Korev Silver badge

Electron has a number of drawbacks – builds tend to be large and memory-hungry, for instance – but the advantage of being able to use familiar web technology to create a single code-base that can generate builds for macOS, Linux, and Windows outweighs the downsides in many cases.

The downsides are pretty much all for the end user as their machine's RAM & disc get swallowed; the developer gets a much easier life in return.

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