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Seems interesting and something I need. But it is available only for Mac?

• guessmyname 9y ago
  > Seems interesting and something I need. But it is available only for Mac? Yes, which is ironic because the app is packaged using Electron, which is supposed to be cross-platform. The developers should have developed this app using native libraries instead to offer a good performance.
  • crispinb 9y ago
    > the app is packaged using Electron, which is supposed to be cross-platform. No, it's a native mac app. It does make use of webviews and an embedded javascript editor (Ace IIRC) to implement the multiple cell types per note. But it's definitely a mac app (quite idiomatically so in many ways).
  • ivanhoe 9y ago
    Probably at some point the plan was to support other platforms as well, but development got stalled for whatever reason...
  • reificator 9y ago
    > the app is packaged using Electron Native developers just can't win anymore. Here someone wrote a native application for macOS using native widgets and getting native performance, and all Hacker News can do is complain that it's Electron-based when it's not. Seriously, if we're at the point where you just can't tell if it's native or Electron, I think it's time for the anti-Electron brigade to come to an end.
    • crispinb 9y ago
      Not part of the anti-Electron brigade (native is, ceteris paribus, superior, but at a cost that can't always be justified), but > if we're at the point where you just can't tell if it's native or Electron We're really not. I don't know where the parent here got this daft idea, but you can be sure it wasn't from actually trying Quiver. It's gobsmackingly obvious that it's a true Cocoa app.