Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
April 11, 2017 (comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14087381
An internet notices that programs built on single-purpose browser instances are criminally wasteful of resources. Hackernews declares that nobody ever listened to music or talked to other people before the advent of browser-based programs. The insistence on driving in every conceivable nail with the same javascript hammer is defended on the basis that programmers' time is more valuable than literally everything else on ea…