Almost migrated each one of our tools out of Electron, it took a while but was well worth it.
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I'm not a bit fan of Electron but I'm curious, why'd you decide to make the switch?
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We rely on battery a lot, and using our own supposedly "lightweight" apps was running our batteries down. We don't use any Electron application anymore, but we wanted to keep on making things.
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Now let's try compile it to webassembly. ;)
(Seriously though, impressive. I wonder why you chose such an old version of C? Portability?)
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portability and similarity to the inferno and plan 9 c compilers.
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Couldn't get rust compiler on Plan 9, and I wasn't really familiar with Go. So, C was a more practical choice.
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Interesting. I recall ha big a convo with you about electron and was curious why you used it. At the time you said you wanted to use the highest level of abstraction. May I ask what prompted the rewrite?
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Over the past 3 years, we went from "I want to the computer to figure out what I mean", to "I don't want the computer to make any assumptions". We learnt a lot, but lots more to learn now.
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