---
title: "10 years of Electron 🎉"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/10-years-of-electron--nbzmifpcj
source_url: https://electronjs.org/blog/10-years-of-electron
type: article
source: "Electron"
published: 2023-03-14T20:23:17.992Z
updated: 2023-03-14T20:23:17.991Z
tags: ["google", "github", "community", "open-source", "authentication", "slack", "chromium", "npm", "electron"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 15
comments: 8
language: en
---

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# 10 years of Electron 🎉

**[Electron](https://daily.dev/sources/electron)** · 8 min read · 15 upvotes · 8 comments

## Summary

Electron has become one of the most popular frameworks for building desktop applications today. The first commit to the repository was on March 13, 2013. Electron v1 was released in 2016, promising increased API stability and better docs and tooling. The road to the decade mark has been long and winding.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@lukehjo** · 2 upvotes

> 10 years of bloat 🎉

**@musicdev** · 0 upvotes

> I too, want to celebrate 10 years of desktop apps performing like garbage

**@luci02** · 0 upvotes

> Big applause 👏👏

**@husseinkizz** · 0 upvotes

> Just rewrite it in rust, maybe the core and leave the front part to web technologies, kind of like how tauri does or find a way to not make me ship chromium just everytime, the apps built with chromium are memory hogs, vscode, chrome, etc!

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