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You say that as if somehow the trend for cross platform desktop apps to be ridiculously bloated bundles of browser overlays is new? What major cross platform a
by jubilanti 5mo ago
You say that as if somehow the trend for cross platform desktop apps to be ridiculously bloated bundles of browser overlays is new?
What major cross platform app isn't based on Electron or Tauri? Slack, Discord, VS Code, Teams, Notion...
- dvngnt_ 5mo agoThough one would hope that they could leverage their advanced models to create native software per platform that can perform better.
- scruple 5mo agoYou'd think Artificial Intelligence could be used to find a better path forward, alas.
- Thegn 5mo agoLet me know when we have actual AI and we can get right on it.
- zelphirkalt 5mo agoNow I only need non-engineers to understand this difference in architecture and design decisions, and I will have a job.
- inigyou 5mo agoClaude Code is uniquely stupid in that it uses React to power a non-Electron terminal app.
- nozzlegear 5mo agoThe ChatGPT app on macOS is native. Same for the Gemini app.
- skydhash 5mo ago> What major cross platform app isn't based on Electron or Tauri? Calibre, VLC, all the jetbrains suite, Sublime, Unity, Unreal, CodeBlocks, Adobe’s stuff,…