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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? by jjeaff on Monday November 05, 2018 @01:09PM (#18384474)
It's a shame that everyone is moving away from native applications.

Web apps and things like electron have their place. But if you are creating an application to be used all the time, you should make it native.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish? by manigandham on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:39PM (#18456688)
The problem is how hard it has become to make native apps on all platforms. Too much work and they never look and feel the same either.

Electron is fine, and webapps can be very fast, but that takes proper coding with a focus on performance and UX. Many companies just don't care.

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