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The framing here assumes you need to ship native to all 3 platforms to justify leaving Electron. You don't. I've been building a native macOS AI client in Swif
by tpae 7mo ago
The framing here assumes you need to ship native to all 3 platforms to justify leaving Electron. You don't.
I've been building a native macOS AI client in Swift — it's 15MB, provider-agnostic, and open source: https://github.com/dinoki-ai/osaurus https://github.com/dinoki-ai/osaurus
Committing to one platform well beats a mediocre Electron wrapper on all three.
- owenpalmer 7mo agoLink gives 404
- tpae 7mo agojust fixed it
- slopinthebag 7mo agoYeah, like you don't need to write three different clients. You can write a native MacOS client and ship your electron client for the irrelevant platforms.
- Austizzle 7mo agoAs somebody who frequently switches between windows and Linux, I will pretty much never install an app that's only on one platform. Cross platform options mean I don't need to pay for or learn separate apps for the same thing on each OS I don't care if it's QT or a WebView or something else, I just want to lower friction for myself