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There are almost no technical reasons, only political, for why we don't have a truly cross-platform, truly native UI framework by now. The whole situation is b
by Razengan 7y ago
There are almost no technical reasons, only political, for why we don't have a truly cross-platform, truly native UI framework by now.
The whole situation is bizarre and comical if you look at it from a distance:
Everybody ALREADY puts tremendous effort in making sure things look and work the same everywhere: Browsers!
Not just Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, but the thousands of third-party maintainers (like yes Electron) in this newly-created circle of Hel that is the JavaScript ecosystem.
And now we're trying to turn the browsers into operating systems!!
Everyone keeps trying to reinvent a wheel that doesn't travel very far to begin with (see all the missing features from web apps that native apps get, being discussed on this page.)