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Yes, the savings in labour translates to savings in time. This should be obvious.

Using Electron to package your application often saves time over writing a native app.

Giving a regular user a ready-to-use app saves them time, because they aren't googling "how to use terminal" for five minutes or trying to copy-paste the magic command out of their notepad app.






> Yes, the savings in labour translates to savings in time. This should be obvious.

Under some circumstances; arguably, in only a handful of circumstances. The colloquial 10xer may as well as get the job done at a fraction of the labour cost associated with a 10-man senior (but really, comparatively junior) team, whereas the latter would spend months rewriting, refactoring, troubleshooting, triaging, bug-hunting, what-have-you...

Much can be said about inefficiencies of engineering teams.




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