Trying out Electron: wepp

I just worked on a small macOS app called wepp, that converts images to the .webp format. As I’m still in the early days of learning Swift, I decided to give Electron a try.

The development experience was very straight-forward, and felt familiar the whole time. If you know Javascript, you know Electon.

What bugged me was that even though it is such a simple app, it weighs about 55MB compressed. The Electron core is just that large. Also, the whole thing (also other Electron apps) just don’t feel native to the platform.

I’m glad the framework exists, but I personally appreciate native apps too much to really take a deep dive into Electron. Guess I’m back to Hacking with Swift!