A lot of it is done by hustle bros.

The real reasons often are:

• They want be able to hire much cheaper webdevs instead of software devs.
• Electron has a lot of built-in data collecting metrics, which they urgently need for creating a real-life KITT.
• Easy live embedding of content. Sure you can add your own solution, in fact I created ETML as a solution for this problem for my engine, all without any support for nasty scripting languages or convoluted stylesheets (style-inheritance in CSS turned me off from webdev even more than JS did). At best, it can be used for things like embedding videos on Discord, because no one else thought some universal approach, let alone one that disallows proprietary players. At worst, it’s being used for ads.

Also a lot of Windows-only apps are Electron apps, only because the manufacturer wants to go “fuck you”, even putting protections into the code just in case you wanted to run it on Linux.

EDIT: Forgot the “live embeds” reason.

I must be hallucinating here. It clearly states a lot of OSes, but maybe it’s just me.

GTK and Qt exists. They’re multi-platform, so you don’t even need to port.

I think we will first see a batch of alternative apps, which either will get shut down by manufacturers etc., or get tolerated as an alternative.

I have an idea for an eso lang, called Greentext, where you write little programs as greentext story, scope indentation is >, and exception handling is done by typing > my parents beat me up.

I have a theory, that ROGD was carefully crafted, so boomers will think their (grand)daughters having a pixie cut during their teen years only to have long hair again afterwards was “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria”, thus think that most cases of trans people are just a “bit confused temporarily”, and would eventually grow it out.

So is COBOL.

(Is there any sane alternative to SQL?)

Herbs and ginger also smell really nice.

What is the rubber duck used for? Is it like the seashells in Demolition Man?

Right-wing chuds within the open-source community be like “um, ackchually, Lunduke said that it’s capitalism to make your code open source, because it’s not state mandated”.

My country (Hungary) already has too many kids not wanting to learn languages, because Google Translate.

Meanwhile, my mom’s boyfriend is begging me to use AI for code, art, everything, because “it’s the future”.

But then webshops were invented, thus making trumping over each other for cheap tat obsolete.

BTW

TBH, people often dislike bombed videos some pundit “disproved” it for them.

At least it won’t be like that infamous Hungarian teacher

The double deckers are an example of a ready-made solution in the original language’s standard library, the lower one is getting multithreading working through the C ABI bindings, using some 3rd party solution, all while multithreading a lot of other tasks in the application.

Nah, those are double deckers.

Sex bad🤖