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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by flukus on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @09:57PM (#18021055)
> At least N times the work for N platforms.

Only if 100% of the code is the GUI.

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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by api on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @09:25AM (#18023987)
It's still N times the work. You trade rewriting the core for figuring out how to meld your vision to two different APIs, two different UI libraries, etc., and of course fixing all the quirks.
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