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0 pointspcr9103036y ago0 comments

> Some would say re-writing the same app 5 times (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android) and maintaining 5 codebases is a bad idea.

Yeah, that's true. I'm looking forwards to React Native (AFAIK it uses the native JS engine + native toolkits) and libui.

I'm also hoping for declarative UI frameworks like SwiftUI so that the underlying framework/runtime can generate the appropriate UI for the exact target platform.

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krzat6y ago· 3 in thread

> underlying framework/runtime can generate the appropriate UI for the exact target platform

This may seem like a good idea, but it's not. What you will get is a leaky, lowest common denominator API that will break on each new OS version.

saagarjha6y ago

I don't understand how you got to this conclusion.

krzat6y ago

I worked on Xamarin app and saw how things worked there. I also think that it's a logical conclusion from these conditions:

1. You want to support N native platforms. 2. Each of these platforms has it's own way of doing this, bugs, etc. 3. Each of these platforms is being actively developed. 4. There are differences between those platforms. One doesn't have guassian blur, the other one doesn't have right-to-left languages.

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alex_suzuki6y ago

Well put.

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