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Plus macOS, Android and iOS.

I think the reason VLC it's the moster it's right now it's their approach to multi platform and "out of the box" experience, with the user not having to worry about codecs and things like that.

Churchill was one of the best coders out there. Like when he said "My Java code be buged. But in the morning will still run, and you will have to update your npm dependencies".

Sorry I was vague, and yeah you're right they have never stooped.

I was thinking more in the Hype thing for new developers. You know like a small Renaissance in the Desktop UI/UX deparment, you know would be cool see beautiful desktop Apps in sites like Behance, Dribbble, etc spotting the first places, instead of the classic App with default OS UI or weird adapted ports of Mobile apps.

I get the idea of Electron Apps having some hate for the performance. I mean if I have to open a large SQL file (> 250MB) and compare the performance between Atom and Sublime... well the difference will be day and night.

But there are a few differences between Flash and Electron that are not small. I mean the first thing is, Electron is open source in a open Standard, and have a fast development cycles to fix performance and security issues.

I think it's like a PHP situation. Electron is easy to use and sells itself as a cheap way to build apps, so this attracts lazy developers so we have a lot of problems, but that doesn't mean the technology is bad. But this is not a Electron problem, I mean web pages right now are heavy and slow for nor real reason. We need better fron-end developers.

I love VS Code, Hyper, and others, so maybe I'm biased, but I think Electron will be a interesting option to make desktop Apps something again.

This can be good. In paper less fragmentation means bug correction, performance optimization, and others it's centralized with more resources and bigger communities. Who knows maybe this was the thing for Wayland to get out of the always-kinda-beta field.

I know there are some people who love Unity, and I hope for them a fork community-developed to emerge. It's sad when your software you use daily it's victim of something like this

In college I brought an iMac to learn edit video in FCP7. It was nice, not really fast but functional, a lot of my professors were apple fanboys since the Jobs era. Then came FCPX, even if it's good right now, the first version released was basically a stab in the back to those video pros who were faithful to apple for years, those were who keep buying in the hardest times of the company.

I saw a lot of video professionals jumping to the Adobe Ecosystem or to things like DaVinci for the GPU rendering.

In my case I ended up selling my mac, and with the money build good PC for the price. I feel stupid of not building one from the beginning. Good bye external disks and weird perif; hello SSD, RAID Storage, expandable RAM, and a GPU with CUDA that I can upgrade in two years, without trashing the rest of the system.

This is not a debate of Mac vs PC (that can go forever), or a PC Master Race propaganda, but the Mac Pro it's a bad taste joke. I get the idea of the "apple tax", but it's ridiculous here. The CPUs, SSD, and RAM are old, but specially the fact that the GPU it's soldered in the Motherboard it's just stupid. GPU are one of those rare things were you can still see the double of performance in each new iteration.

I love my Macbook Pro because reasons, but in Desktops, the PC it's the King.