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IMO, they both feel very out of place. One just eats 10x the memory of the other. Not sure that is a better trade off. If an electron app is pretending to be na

IMO, they both feel very out of place. One just eats 10x the memory of the other. Not sure that is a better trade off. If an electron app is pretending to be native, it's pretty much a giant sign telling me to look elsewhere. I get the ease of development argument, but it always feels like garbage even when done "well" like Slack. VS Code is about the only thing that pulls things off OK, but even that is notably slower than alternatives and I blame nobody for sticking with Sublime.

lf-non 9y ago
It is not about a ui pretending to look native. It is more about form interaction patterns that users are subconsciously habituated to. For example: - Pressing enter submits a form. - Clicking on a label focusses the input box. - In OS X readline style shortcuts are available in all input boxes, eg. Ctrl+a takes you to beginning to line, Ctrl+e takes you to the end etc. When these things don't behave the way you expect them to, it really destroys the user experience. Building on browser runtime gives a lot of these platform specific accessibility features to you for free - which may not be very trivial to arrive at through cross platform native gui libraries.