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		saagarjha on Nov 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for p... You can avoid Electron if you try hard enough. I use Slack through a native client, for example; before that I was using browser tabs.

mixmastamyk on Nov 10, 2020 | [–]

Try hard enough, haha. I don't have a single Electron app, and yet have never purposely avoided them either.

johncalvinyoung on Nov 10, 2020 | | [–]

Which native client? Slack for desktop is Electron.

saagarjha on Nov 10, 2020 | | [–]

https://shrugs.app/

whynotminot on Nov 10, 2020 | [–]

I'm not stupid dude, I know there are ways to avoid it.

Sometimes they're not worth it. Electron's existence itself is proof of "sometimes it's not worth it."

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