Electron 13

[ghost]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We have updated Electron to 13.x in nixpkgs, but didn't pin the version used for element-desktop properly. Now we can't add native extensions until they build with Electron 13, since downgrading Electron might break state.

Describe the solution you'd like
Probably update neon to the latest release. Maybe change to N-API?

Describe alternatives you've considered
Patch neon? Probably would need multiple patches though.

Additional context
NixOS/nixpkgs#124907

[poljar]

Updating neon is inevitable so that's the way to go, though it's a bit non-trivial since neon-serde seems to be abandoned, so we'll need to get rid of it and neon itself has a new API.

For reference, the migration guide for neon is found here.

[ghost]

There is a maintained-ish fork of neon_serde: https://github.com/antonok-edm/neon-serde/tree/refactor/update-neon-0.8

The whole thing is non-trivial, but I think I'm making good progress.

[poljar]

This has been addressed by #95 and #97.