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Catherine
@whitequark
why are we making Electron apps why are we making private communication tools as Electron apps
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Alfredo Ortega
@ortegaalfredo
And we'll release the Signal-Desktop Remote code exec advisory (CVE-2018-10994) in some hours. Not a good week for privacy software. twitter.com/seecurity/stat
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Catherine
@whitequark
I understand why someone would make an app that runs in a browser; that has certain benefits. but you had a choice and you *still* used a browser? that's just irresponsible.
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Catherine
@whitequark
the only sort of valid reason I have heard so far is "I have ideological hatred of all native UI toolkits", everything else is just not knowing what e.g. Qt 5 can do
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Catherine
@whitequark
look, if you absolutely *insist* on using JavaScript, you can use that to write apps with Qt 5. I wouldn't say you should, but you can, and it's less horrible than the "web platform"
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@allgebrah
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@whitequark
depending on what part of Qt5 you use, the JS support is years behind browsers though (writing QML JS feels like 2010 again, without the cross-browser issues though)
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@allgebrah
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@whitequark
you can embed a WebView but iirc that's a WebKit so uhhh what exactly did I save again maybe there's a way of writing nice JS for Qt that isn't also pointless but I've not found it yet
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@allgebrah
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@allgebrah
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@whitequark
that stuff is native but it's not my department at work so take it with a grain of salt meanwhile Qt WebView allows you to render HTML+CSS+JS but is a full webkit, so basically a browser (unless they switched to V4? which I doubt)
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