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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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@whitequark
ok so QML (which allows you to write interfaces in JS and has nice things like actual Signals) uses its own JS engine called V4, at least it did the last time I evaluated the topic which was Qt 5.4 times iirc
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