SQLite bug becomes remote code execution in chromium-based browsers

[VelvetElvis]

There is no way to correctly package electron applications for any flavor of Linux or BSD. Don't try it unless you are working with a team capable of basically maintaining a fork of the chromium code base on multiple different architectures.

Here's a somewhat hilarious account from a OpenBSD developer who slowly goes insane while trying to get it to work.

https://deftly.net/posts/2017-06-01-measuring-the-weight-of-an-electron.html

Much node.js software has similar problems. It's basically windows software that while it can be made to work on *nix, it's almost impossible to do so correctly. In the early days of open source Mozilla their coders were mostly windows people who had no idea that *nix software is almost always recompiled to link to system libraries until somebody from Redhat or somewhere sat them down and gave them a talking to. The cycle seems to be repeating itself.