I am a young programmer, student, front end developer/designer, with some knowledge of languages such as java, php.
I am developing one electron app, and it is going great. And I don't even know javascript that much. But in my case, usage of browser engine is essential, since it has to do with rendering HTML and so on. I have less than 1000 lines of javascript and almost everything was working after 2 weeks.
It is not that big of a project anyway, but from the begging I knew that it should be fairly easy and doable.
In fact, I can imagine that I could do so many kinds of apps with electron, and I can easily see how I would approach it.
Let's say music player. No problem. I believe that electron can easily play media, and it would all look great. Or some productivity tool, or note taking app. Working with files, editing text files, even viewing documents like .pdf would be easy (would just use some plugin). Or even embedding youtube videos in notes would be easy. And all that with easy control of layout and great rendering of fonts and images, plus animations.
With little knowledge of front end stuff, and some general programming principles, you can already see how you could build app on the top of electron, which is a platform everyone here knows without even trying. It makes me feel kind of powerful to be able to do such a nice apps myself.
but if there was something exciting like red-lang with easy to do custom UI ( if needed ) and with some ecosystem around it, i would definitely look into it
I am developing one electron app, and it is going great. And I don't even know javascript that much. But in my case, usage of browser engine is essential, since it has to do with rendering HTML and so on. I have less than 1000 lines of javascript and almost everything was working after 2 weeks.
It is not that big of a project anyway, but from the begging I knew that it should be fairly easy and doable.
In fact, I can imagine that I could do so many kinds of apps with electron, and I can easily see how I would approach it.
Let's say music player. No problem. I believe that electron can easily play media, and it would all look great. Or some productivity tool, or note taking app. Working with files, editing text files, even viewing documents like .pdf would be easy (would just use some plugin). Or even embedding youtube videos in notes would be easy. And all that with easy control of layout and great rendering of fonts and images, plus animations.
With little knowledge of front end stuff, and some general programming principles, you can already see how you could build app on the top of electron, which is a platform everyone here knows without even trying. It makes me feel kind of powerful to be able to do such a nice apps myself.