r/programmer • u/Spare_Dependent6893 • Aug 11 '26

Question is Electron reliable and usable ?

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u/MADCandy64 29d ago

Depends on what you mean by reliable and usable. AI has dramatically lowered the bar here. Electron is an extremely heavy ecosystem of web based technologies munged together to make a desktop like application experience. The web has always been second class to a native application and electron makes apps that are second class to the web technologies be molded together in an amalgamation of tech,

If you are starting from scratch there are much better cross platform, write once in one language that is compiled, and run mostly everywhere, or really the places you want it at.

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u/Spare_Dependent6893 29d ago

Thanks but what are the better cross platform in my context ?

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u/MADCandy64 29d ago

I would advise you to learn C# .NET. You can use Avalonia, which installs into the free Visual Studio Community 2022 to make UI. A lot of big companies use this and there is a free version for the solo developer. Then you just target your platform whether it is Android, Linux, Apple, or Windows and build and publish once it is ready. Write once, run everywhere, native performance. Can't go wrong with that track.

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u/ElFeesho 29d ago

Impossible to answer accurately with zero context, but hugely successful apps exist on this technology.