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0 pointsjubilanti17d ago0 comments

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...

0 pointsjubilanti17d ago0 comments

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...

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scruple17d ago· 2 in thread

You'd think Artificial Intelligence could be used to find a better path forward, alas.

Thegn17d ago

Let me know when we have actual AI and we can get right on it.

Now I only need non-engineers to understand this difference in architecture and design decisions, and I will have a job.

Claude Code is uniquely stupid in that it uses React to power a non-Electron terminal app.

Though one would hope that they could leverage their advanced models to create native software per platform that can perform better.

> 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,…

The ChatGPT app on macOS is native. Same for the Gemini app.

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