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this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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I seriously doubt that a dual-language platform is ever going to supplant Electron. Electron has the major advantage that the entire app is written in one language. And according to Stack Overflow's 2023 developer survey, 66% of devs use JavaScript, 45% use Python, 43% use TypeScript, and 12% use Rust. More devs use Java, C#, C++, PHP, and C than Rust. So 2/3 of developers wouldn't have to learn a new language to use Electron, and only a small fraction of the remainder knows Rust.
It's not a dual-language platform, though. You write the backend and the frontend in Rust. The frontend code is compiled to WASM to serve it to the browser.
Ah, well that’s great for folks who already know or want to learn Rust
The folks who only know JavaScript and refuse to learn more deserve to be blamed for electron's (and similar) continued existence, and therefore for excessive resource usage.