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		butz 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Detect Electron apps on Mac that hasn't been updat... In all those years Electron still did not manage to separate runtime from applications, so updates would be smaller and security fixes would reach all applications much faster.

tomaskafka 5 months ago [–]

Isn't this the idea with PWAs (where runtime = browser)? I struggle to find Electron apps that couldn't be run as pinned web apps.

soapdog 5 months ago | [–]

the tricky bit is filesystem access.

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