The real reasons often are:

• They want be able to hire much cheaper webdevs instead of software devs.
• Electron has a lot of built-in data collecting metrics, which they urgently need for creating a real-life KITT.
• Easy live embedding of content. Sure you can add your own solution, in fact I created ETML as a solution for this problem for my engine, all without any support for nasty scripting languages or convoluted stylesheets (style-inheritance in CSS turned me off from webdev even more than JS did). At best, it can be used for things like embedding videos on Discord, because no one else thought some universal approach, let alone one that disallows proprietary players. At worst, it’s being used for ads.

Also a lot of Windows-only apps are Electron apps, only because the manufacturer wants to go “fuck you”, even putting protections into the code just in case you wanted to run it on Linux.

EDIT: Forgot the “live embeds” reason.

I must be hallucinating here. It clearly states a lot of OSes, but maybe it’s just me.

GTK and Qt exists. They’re multi-platform, so you don’t even need to port.

I think we will first see a batch of alternative apps, which either will get shut down by manufacturers etc., or get tolerated as an alternative.

I have an idea for an eso lang, called Greentext, where you write little programs as greentext story, scope indentation is >, and exception handling is done by typing > my parents beat me up.

Throwing a tantrum as a parent: Just tell your kid you’re strict, then scream at them for every little thing.

So is COBOL.

(Is there any sane alternative to SQL?)

What is the rubber duck used for? Is it like the seashells in Demolition Man?

Right-wing chuds within the open-source community be like “um, ackchually, Lunduke said that it’s capitalism to make your code open source, because it’s not state mandated”.

My country (Hungary) already has too many kids not wanting to learn languages, because Google Translate.

Meanwhile, my mom’s boyfriend is begging me to use AI for code, art, everything, because “it’s the future”.

BTW

At least it won’t be like that infamous Hungarian teacher

The double deckers are an example of a ready-made solution in the original language’s standard library, the lower one is getting multithreading working through the C ABI bindings, using some 3rd party solution, all while multithreading a lot of other tasks in the application.

Nah, those are double deckers.

Oh, so you’re using “gatekeeper” linguo. So much for the “everyone’s welcome in the Rust community” mantra!

If only there were a few alternatives to Rust for system development with a syntax that isn’t a marriage of flesh between OCaml and C. Unfortunately none exists, because if I say otherwise, rustacerans will accuse me of “FUDposting”, and some will even try to dig up some dirt about me, to ruin my life and to ultimately force me off the web, because shame is good, except if they’re the target of said shame.

So we’re left with a language that:

• Was marketed as a functional programming language until people started to “FUDpost” about how functional programming has its own issues (optimization, etc.), so the Rust team quickly tried to course correct and market it as a “multi paradigm” language. It is “FUD” if you ask why it’s still const by default. If only Oracle found out about this tactic, to market Java as a “multi paradigm programming language”, because you can just “opt out from OOP aspects”, then tell its usiers that “packaging classes are just good practice”.
• Makes many optimizations very ugly if not impossible.
• Makes memory unsafe operations ugly, to “disintensivise the programmer from them”.
• Has a pretty toxic userbase, which is only being called out by Lunduke-style toxic morons with anti-woke brainrot, and for the wrong reasons. No, the problem isn’t that many people in the Rust community are often trans, and that the code of conduct aren’t a selection of Bible-verses, but that a portion of Rust users weaponize callouts, with this callout weaponization actually coming from 4chan and other sites that pioneered networked harassment.

Advertising, and Apple buying up some professional software to discontinue their non-Apple versions (as well as disabling customization as “they know better than the users”) made it equal with “professionalism”.

In my middleware, it’s like that, with the optional Btn_V and Btn_VI for reasons.

Here’s a layout I just came up with:

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