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> there will be no good cross-platform mobile UI story Generally (IMHO) there are no good cross-platform stories, mobile or otherwise with the notable exceptio
by criddell 3y ago
> there will be no good cross-platform mobile UI story
Generally (IMHO) there are no good cross-platform stories, mobile or otherwise with the notable exception of some game engines. The closest you can get is choosing the web browser as your platform and writing a web app (Electron).
If you want to make the best app you can, use the native toolkit directly or via a framework for your UI.
- koito17 3y agoFor web apps on desktop you're not even restricted to Electron anymore. Thanks to Tauri, I feel a lot more comfortable shipping web apps beyond the browser (and React Native) since I don't have to pay the cost of bundling Chromium and Node.js. The Rust ecosystem is large enough that any backend-related task I would use Node.js for has an equivalent in Rust.
- pjmlp 3y agoWe were never restricted to Electron. There are browsers already installed, and MSHTML apps and XUL predate it for a decade.