To me, yes. I avoid Electron like the plague. I know others feel the same way, so think of it as community service.
Javascript-on-desktop arguments are probably already taking up gigabytes of space in the HN database, so I'll just say it's for all the usual reasons.
youd be surprised how well text compresses
Especially text with a lot of repetition.
There's also a lot of people who don't feel the same way and I think you know it. So probably no need for "saved the click" part in your community service.
People not liking electron isn't an affront to the people who do. Let's not police people's speech.
It’s not JavaScript-on-desktop that’s the problem- this was a suspicion often cast at Gnome’s bad performance, until Canonical got involved, started fixing performance issues, and it was discovered that most of those issues stemmed from inefficient waits and stuff.
The reason why Electron apps gets such a bad rap (and I fully agree, I hate them too) is because they carry basically an entire Chromium with them in addition to whatever you wanted to accomplish.
HN is pretty split on Electron afaik because whilst it killed native apps for Windows and Mac, it has brought a lot of them to Linux.
Precisely. I would hate Electron less, if it shipped as a runtime like Java. Though I still think shoehorning web tech onto the desktop is stupid.