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Cross-platform GUIs always, inevitably, suck. Yes, Qt too. Electron apps just feel like they don't belong on your OS. They try hard to reimplement all the behav
by grishka 5y ago
Cross-platform GUIs always, inevitably, suck. Yes, Qt too. Electron apps just feel like they don't belong on your OS. They try hard to reimplement all the behaviors you'd get for free if you used the OS's native GUI toolkit, but they do it shittily and it shows. It's extremely hard to make a cross-platform app that feels like a native one. I haven't seen a single one yet.
> a rich open-source ecosystem (~1.3 million packages on npm)
And people using those packages without ever understanding what's inside, resulting in unneeded abstraction layers and enormous bloat.