[Interest] QML vs Electron

[Jason H]

> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 11:29 AM
> From: "Morten W. J." <morten at winkler.dk>
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] QML vs Electron
>
> On Thursday, February 15, 2018 5:10:38 PM CET René Hansen wrote:
> >  [if they have had] Qt on the table when choosing a hybrid application 
> architecture
> 
> This is where I'd say your chain of reasoning breaks.
> 
> Few projects I have heard of chose a hybrid application approach. They have a 
> webclient and can easily wrap it in 0.5 Gb of electron and "Ta-da! Look, boss. 
> A desktop application too!" (1) Since the boss and the developers has has more 
> cpu, ram and cores than they know how to spend, the approach is approved.

This is as funny as it is sad. Let's take a platform designed around being limited so we can safely execute unsigned other people's untrusted code, wrap it in an environment with unrestricted user privileges, and deal with all the distribution and platform issues therein.