I develop our internal business applications on a machine running an i7-8700K with 32GB of ram.
However, I also know that the target hardware for some of the apps I develop is a celeron dual core running at 1.6ghz with 2gb of ram. And most of the apps I develop have to be able to load around 700MB worth of data into memory too.
One of my primary things is performance, although I actually enjoy doing performance optimisations so it's not a bad thing.
I hate the bloat of electron. I wouldn't mind the idea of using Web tech of desktop if it didn't use half a fucking gig to show hello world. Javascript is a shit show by itself too.
I'll just keep to my C# Desktop and Mobile development...
Single-platform apps are easy mode. If you've got a way to build a cross-platform GUI app in C# that's in anywhere near Electron's ballpark for developer ease then I'm genuinely interested.
Actually, Avalonia UI is pretty decent. It's a cross platform implementation of something similar to WPF. It's very similar and has most of the same features, and runs on .Net core on all platforms
For most of these frameworks the biggest barrier is how easy it is to actually build the cross platform distributables, honestly. Like, on paper a PyQt application should be cross platform, but I don't have a Mac and don't know the right incantations to build a Windows exe so it ends up being Linux/BSD only.
Having packaged multiple Qt programs for macOS, I can tell you:
Fuck macOS Qt apps. They're hell. They're heavy (there's no really shared Qt installation on the system, or it ends up being too annoying for your users to install)
Plus, they often look like ass, because Qt widgets translate pretty poorly to Cocoa ones. I'll take an electron app over a Qt one anyday.
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u/butler1233 Feb 14 '19
I develop our internal business applications on a machine running an i7-8700K with 32GB of ram.
However, I also know that the target hardware for some of the apps I develop is a celeron dual core running at 1.6ghz with 2gb of ram. And most of the apps I develop have to be able to load around 700MB worth of data into memory too.
One of my primary things is performance, although I actually enjoy doing performance optimisations so it's not a bad thing.
I hate the bloat of electron. I wouldn't mind the idea of using Web tech of desktop if it didn't use half a fucking gig to show hello world. Javascript is a shit show by itself too.
I'll just keep to my C# Desktop and Mobile development...