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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by eschaton on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:47PM (#18021006)
Absolutely not the case.
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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by Spivak on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:51PM (#18021026)
Examples of apps which go the extra effort to use each platforms toolkit and look and behave natively?
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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by eschaton on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:05PM (#18021092)
The classic example of this was Microsoft Office; they tried to unify the UI and implementation for just the reasons you argue in the mid-1990s and faced a user revolt as a result. Subsequent versions were very much a rewind, with a native Mac human interface on a cross-platform core.

I don’t know how it is now as I haven’t used Office in about 15 years.

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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by scarface74 on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:06PM (#18021101)
It feels very Mac like today.
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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by h1d on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:35AM (#18021697)
It only does. Everything seems like some optimized hack of some sort that things aren't as performant as true native apps. Just maximizing the window size feels sluggish.
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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by Osiris on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @10:17PM (#18021144)
SourceTree has a native Mac and a native Windows app. I would guess that they are completely different code bases.
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