why dont electron make an app that is to js what emacs is to lisp, in the sense that you would install electron and then install packages for aplications?that way you woudnt waste lot of resources like now where every app is like a browser, you would use only one browser and all apps would share the same interpreter.you would have a lateral panel where you choose discord, vscode, obsidian etc.am i a genius?
>>101535603Actually there's been a couple of projects like this knocking around for some time. Even keep the applications you install up to date too with the most recent edition.The one i really like is from the Mozilla Foundation.Check it out: https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/
>electron>you woudnt waste lot of resources
>>101535603so you're proposing chromeOS?
>>101537428browsers dont come with a webserver, and you need to download the app everytime you close.>>101537813you cant download vscode/discord natively in chromeos, only the android version or linux version (each of them use its own electron kernel and such)
>>101535603Electron is owned by MS.MS offers WebView2 if you want a shared runtime.https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/microsoft-teams-advantages-of-the-new-architecture/ba-p/3775704
>>101535603VSCode is the Emacs of JS if that's what you want
>>101543291yeah but Js has the capabillity to do much more than text editing, you could do entire aplications.
>>101543500notepad++ and plugins is sovl
>>101538686bruh just use the browser idiot
>Why not make electron like emacs Emacs was built as a platform. It was meant to be an extensible text editor. Electron has always just been a library. The people who develop with electron aren't interested in developing for a platform, but releasing a product. It also goes against browser design. Browsers are built to silo tabs into separate processes. You would have to fork the browser process and rewrite how it works to get better performance, but they'll never do that because they'll lose the ability to share code.
