Ask HN: What does the future hold for Electron?

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5 years ago

Microsoft owns Github. Github maintains Electron. Microsoft are moving Teams to use WebView2, sharing a single Chromium instance for all apps, reducing memory usage, which is the most common complaint for Electron.

This architecture has been obvious to everyone for a long time. Every Electron app could essentially be a webpage but with enhanced native API access.

Electron's future seems bleak. ESM support hasn't materialized (https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/21457). WebView2 will not be available on macOS until late 2022 [it seems](https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645#issuecomment-921551618).

Seems we are in one of these awkward transition periods, where you are forced to start a project on technology that you know will be deprecated in the near future sigh.

Anyone have insight/predictions?

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