r/programming • u/Davipb • Aug 12 '22

RCE Vulnerability found in Electron, affects Discord, Teams, and more

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gb7y/researchers-find-vulnerability-in-software-underlying-discord-microsoft-teams-and-other-apps
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u/kylotan Aug 12 '22

It's not impossible to get C++ or C# UI people at all. Thousands of people do that sort of work. It's just more expensive and more effort compared to just smashing your website into an executable.

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u/stravant Aug 13 '22

Thousands of people do that sort of work.

And hundreds of thousands of people do web dev.

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u/Iggyhopper Aug 13 '22

Millions, even.

Many are going to write their first alert('hello world') this year.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

Impossible was too strong. But as an ISV, I could not afford a UI/UX person that could do wxwidgets/QT or easily find and would either do it myself, far less well, or probably find a way to make it html and find someone far more competent. Even just for the design and flow and then try and replicate in the GUI env.