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Hi! Romain here, I work on Codex at OpenAI. We totally hear you. The team actually built the app in Electron specifically so we can support Windows and Linux as

Hi! Romain here, I work on Codex at OpenAI. We totally hear you. The team actually built the app in Electron specifically so we can support Windows and Linux as well. We shipped macOS first, but Windows is coming very soon. Appreciate you calling this out. Stay tuned!

embirico 8mo ago
Only thing i'd add re windows is it's taking us some time to get really solid sandboxing working on Windows, where there are fewer OS-level primitives for it. There's some more at https://developers.openai.com/codex/windows https://developers.openai.com/codex/windows and we'd love help with testing and feedback to make it robust.
Oras 8mo ago
Curios why electron not native? Wouldn’t native give better performance and more system integration?
- ForHackernews 8mo ago
  When you're a trillion dollar company that burns more coal than Bangladesh in order to harness a hyperintelligent Machine God to serve your whims, you don't have the resources to maintain native clients for three separate targets.
- rolymath 8mo ago
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  - Oras 8mo ago
    Going cross platform doesn’t sound the main reason (or I hope not). For a company that size, is it really hard to hire specialised small team?! It would be a good show case for their Codex too
    - piskov 8mo ago
      They presumably use codex to build this. LLMs output is non-deterministic. Harder to keep the same logic across. Would I love to see swiftui on macos, wpf/winui om windows, whatever qt hell it is on linux? Sure. But it is what it is. I am glad the codex-cli is rust and native. Because claude code and opencode are not: react, solidjs and what have you for a tree layer. — Then again, if codex builds codex, let it cook and port if AI is great. Otherwise, it’s claim chowder
    - ativzzz 8mo ago
      It is hard because this product will likely be obsolete next year based on how quickly AI is changing and evolving. Speed is king when you're on the frontier
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      - pu_pe 8mo ago
        Yes, exactly. "Just hire a small team and build native apps for another OS" is the recipe for taking a year to deliver instead of a month
anonymous908213 8mo ago
Electron? Why can't Codex write, or at least translate, your application to native code instead of using a multi-hundred-mb browser wrapper to display text? Is this the future of software engineering Codex is promising me?
EastSmith 8mo ago
Really hoped you'd say Linux next.
- romainhuet 8mo ago
  We should be able to make it available for Linux very soon as well!

embirico 8mo ago

Only thing i'd add re windows is it's taking us some time to get really solid sandboxing working on Windows, where there are fewer OS-level primitives for it. There's some more at https://developers.openai.com/codex/windows https://developers.openai.com/codex/windows and we'd love help with testing and feedback to make it robust.

Oras 8mo ago

Curios why electron not native? Wouldn’t native give better performance and more system integration?

ForHackernews 8mo ago
When you're a trillion dollar company that burns more coal than Bangladesh in order to harness a hyperintelligent Machine God to serve your whims, you don't have the resources to maintain native clients for three separate targets.
rolymath 8mo ago
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- Oras 8mo ago
  Going cross platform doesn’t sound the main reason (or I hope not). For a company that size, is it really hard to hire specialised small team?! It would be a good show case for their Codex too
  - piskov 8mo ago
    They presumably use codex to build this. LLMs output is non-deterministic. Harder to keep the same logic across. Would I love to see swiftui on macos, wpf/winui om windows, whatever qt hell it is on linux? Sure. But it is what it is. I am glad the codex-cli is rust and native. Because claude code and opencode are not: react, solidjs and what have you for a tree layer. — Then again, if codex builds codex, let it cook and port if AI is great. Otherwise, it’s claim chowder
  - ativzzz 8mo ago
    It is hard because this product will likely be obsolete next year based on how quickly AI is changing and evolving. Speed is king when you're on the frontier
    - deleted 8mo ago
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    - pu_pe 8mo ago
      Yes, exactly. "Just hire a small team and build native apps for another OS" is the recipe for taking a year to deliver instead of a month

anonymous908213 8mo ago

Electron? Why can't Codex write, or at least translate, your application to native code instead of using a multi-hundred-mb browser wrapper to display text? Is this the future of software engineering Codex is promising me?

EastSmith 8mo ago

Really hoped you'd say Linux next.

romainhuet 8mo ago
We should be able to make it available for Linux very soon as well!