Ask HN: How do you feel about applications being a web-app wrapped in Electron?

3 points by awalGarg ↗ HN
I don't like them, but I can't decide why I do not like them. So I'd like to see what the masses think.

Note that by "website wrapped" I mean just that - a website, not a website which is necessarily accessibly via internet. So this includes the new Skype for Linux Alpha (which I am assuming is web.skype.com wrapped in chromium. if it is not, just think for now it is for example's sake) but not an application to flash ISOs to USB drives[1] which uses node APIs and native extensions for the logic, and electron mostly for the UI part and JS for driving the UI.

[1]: It actually exists: www.etcher.io, but that's just an example. No specific application intended to be pin-pointed.

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Sometimes it's useful to have a separate .app for a website, at least under macOS.

But then Fluid.app solves that problem without the pain of coding up Electron wrapping.