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We've thought of it. Most customers are Win & Mac based. The vast majority of the IDE is shared code with only thin native UI wrappers (genuinely native, done t

We've thought of it. Most customers are Win & Mac based. The vast majority of the IDE is shared code with only thin native UI wrappers (genuinely native, done the Right Way, aka non-Electron :D) and I admit to having been tempted to point an AI at the source and a copy of Qt and asking it to add a third one, a Linux GUI. We don't normally use AI for most of our coding, but I think with two prior examples and a thin layer only, it'd be a pretty cool experiment.

justinclift 6mo ago
If you do have a go at that and want someone to test the end result, you're welcome to ping me to try it out? :) (email addr is in my HN profile) -- As a data point, I develop with Go professionally and use Linux (exclusively) both at home and at work. Some of my developer team mates at work use macOS, and others use Windows. Many of the other places I've worked have been fairly Linux (and/or macOS) heavy too. Not so much Windows heavy in the last few years, and I personally expect the trend of less Windows usage to continue due to Microsoft continuing to degrade its user experience.