JavaScript used to be just a scripting language running in the browser's sandbox environment. Since the release of Node.js in 2009, JavaScript has show extraordinary talents on the server side, the Internet of Things, mobile native application development, and even desktop application development. In the past, to develop desktop applications, we need to learn the exclusive programming languages and development frameworks for different platforms, which not only costs a lot, but also takes a lot of time to make a desktop application that supports and is compatible with multiple OS platforms, and basically needs to be implemented by different teams for different platforms.

Everything comes at a price. The advantage of cross-platform application developed with Electron and similar software frameworks is that the program has cool interface and nice features, but the obvious disadvantage is that the file size is too large, e.g.: the Mini Diary AppNee just shared. But I personally can't stand any large files, whether it's software, game, or even database.

Mini Diary is a pure and simple electronic diary/journal application for Windows and Mac platforms, built with Electron and React, developed by Samuel Meuli from Canada. It comes with only a basic UI, a few buttons, a text input field, a calendar, and a search function, but it's free, open-source, modern, user-friendly, effective, and secure enough.

Animation:Master (the successor of Animation:Apprentice and Animation:Journeyman) is a very professional, efficient and easy to use 3D character animation application, has the longest history of all 3D software. In 1986, when most people had never heard of computer art and even had no idea what a computer was, the famous Disney company had already used this program to produce animations.

No Man's Sky is a sandbox-based space exploration game, loved by gamers for its high degree of freedom and large map structure, but also received numerous bad reviews for its poor playability. In particular, the maps of galaxy and the scenes of planets in game are not preset, but randomly generated. Players need to explore, fight, trade and survive in this nearly infinite universe (containing 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 stars).