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I'd argue bookmarks achieve much of the same result, but I see your point. Cross-platform, as much as I'd like it to work, just doesn't seem to ever feel nativ

I'd argue bookmarks achieve much of the same result, but I see your point. Cross-platform, as much as I'd like it to work, just doesn't seem to ever feel native. I'd very much like to see a transpilation-based cross-platform development framework that generates real Swift/Kotlin/Javascript for iOS/Android/Web, but I'm not sure if it's possible with all of the nice developer experience goodies that developers would come to expect (namely hot reloading) -- but maybe!

gumby 3y ago
People have been trying to make that work since the 80s. The different interfaces don’t have the same metaphors or semantics so cross-platform UI toolkits are always restricted to worst-case lowest common denominator capabilities. You see this outside UX too — few programs are written to pure POSIX because usually you want to do more than that core.