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Comment by blackoil

5 hours ago

Even with SublimeText, most popular IDE is VSCode, most popular interface design tool Figma, all popular chat platforms and so on are all electron based. If people were desperate for faster platforms they'll be migrating to them.

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eviks  3 hours ago

> Even with SublimeText, most popular IDE is VSCode

What a weird comparison, one is free, another one is a premium app, of course a lot of people prefer some suffering over paying money

frumplestlatz  4 hours ago

Your mistaking supply-side path dependent outcomes that produce a lack of consumer choice with consumer preference. No consumer prefers slow, bloated, non-native software, but they're stuck with what they can get.

  • aurareturn  3 hours ago

    There is competition for Figma. Sketch.

    There's plenty of competition for VSCode too.

    Don't forget that these Electron apps outcompeted native apps. Figma and VSCode were underdogs to native apps at one point. This is why your supply side argument doesn't make any sense.