[dba-Tech] Electron

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi All:

The new big development application, according to some articles I have read is the product Electron (formally Atom). 

What it does is interesting, in that it translates webbased applications and make desktop applications out of them. What makes this concept so interesting and perhaps amusing is that, ten years ago, I never imagined that web applications would have so many features as to make them as powerful as any desktop program but that was ten year ago. Today, there is hardly anything that that a web application couldn't do compared to a desktop app. 

The product is Open Source, can be downloaded in its entirety off GitHub and its compiled products can run on any platform:

http://electron.atom.io

If you want to see how this product can be used to convert a web application to a desktop one, check out the new Microsoft new cross-platform Visual Studio:

https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

...and...

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/29/microsoft-shocks-the-world-with-visual-studio-code-a-free-code-editor-for-os-x-linux-and-windows/#.efujwt:k3qL

My question is when will we have a full featured MS Access built on the web and compiled on the desktop?

Jim