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Comment by mcjiggerlog | Hacker News Reader

Wow, some of the comments in this thread are pretty harsh considering the developer has worked hard on providing what looks to me like a pretty cool free app. Nobody is forcing you to install it.

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Completely agree. Electron is free, easy to use and doesn't take much effort. Although it isn't the most memory efficient thing in the world, it is great at making really small applications (like this one) which developers can easily make plugins for.

Javascript is probably one of the most common languages, with Node.JS the most common server-side variant of it, allowing so very many people to contribute.

Also, we live in age where we don't have 100MB systems. At the moment the program is using a whole 30MB, which constitutes about 0.4% of my 8GB system.

Hey, come on.

I also had criticism in time for open source projects I worked on.

It's not about the person who did it, it's about my opinion and why I wouldn't use it.

Kudos for everyone doing open source.

So, people shouldn't be able to comment their point of view because the developer worked hard?

I think people should be slightly less critical of design decisions enforced by a limited amount of time to work on a side-project that's free.

Comments such as "why didn't you make everything from scratch" probably aren't going to contribute much to the conversation.

Well, maybe we should choose our projects based on time we have for them, instead of using a hammer to drive in a screw?

Or maybe the app works great and nobody cares what technology you wish had been used.

We have already established this is not the case.

No, we haven't. A bunch of people have used the app (including me) and said nice things about it. Then some other people have spouted vitriol about the fact that it's made with electron. Frankly all we've established is that a lot of people are bitter about electron and don't have the basic manners required to take part in a constructive technology community.

A considered statement in measured language about the negative consequences of using electron is one thing. This wasn't that: it's unnecessarily hostile — as if the OP was genuinely inconvenienced or put out by something that doesn't impact them in the least.

Disagreeing with someone isn't the same as shitting on their hard work and good-faith effort to create something useful.

Don't worry about drinchev, it is very common in Bulgaria to point out flaws whenever someone else is doing something, instead of congratulating how awesome the work is. It is not personal, just cultural.

Speechless here. Bravo!

I know that most people don't know it, no reason to be speechless. But I've been living there for a good part of my life and observed that behaviour time and again. Someone does something awesome, then comes the first feedback, finds a flaw and makes the whole feedback just about that flaw. That's why the country is miserable and everyone is leaving. People don't enxourage eacht other but crizisize each other all day long. Besides that: Wonderful country and people!

Behaviors contrary to Hacker News's culture are common to many national cultures and most sites on the internet. That does not make them appropriate here.

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