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		sixplusone on Nov 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components But this is part of the problem. I should have said "provide standard API" above. These libs aren't standard.

ajxs on Nov 21, 2019 [–]

I don't think that really excuses the use of Electron. Cross-platform GUI frameworks like Qt/GTK+ already exist to resolve this issue. This problem was already solved before Electron came around. All Electron did was lower the bar.

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