alt Hacker NewsIt's different. Electron apps all look the same without actually making much efforts to make them "personal" -- they just want to release an app ASAP so they chose Electron.
On the other hand, the Win32 era "skins" like they ones used in Video Player and Winamp are very personal -- they have distinct styles. Maybe we don't like the styles, but at least they are trying to make a unique taste.
Electron apps do not have tastes. Unless you count flat design + as little UI as possible as a taste.
Modern operating systems are for servers, for corporations. They are not personal. Linux was for hackers and sysadmins then, not power users, and for servers now. Linux does make a come back for desktop because Windows team makes such a herculean effort to trash its own product. The Win 3.1 - Win XP era are the real "personal" era.
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If I want to release a native app ASAP, I would chose .NET, Delphi, C++ Builder, Qt,...
If it has to be Web stack, it would be hosted somewhere and delivered as a proper Web application.
> Electron apps all look the same without actually making much efforts to make them "personal" -- they just want to release an app ASAP so they chose Electron.
Which is the most goofy thing about the whole situation! I would argue that the push for “visual identity” was largely responsible for the drive towards web apps vs. native apps in the early 00s. In exchange we got all of these tortured UI frameworks built to paper over hypertext abstractions that weren’t well suited to application development to start with. And now we use these frameworks to make bland applications again!