Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
by briandear on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @03:47PM
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Why doesn’t Slack write an actual Mac app in Swift? For small companies with limited resources, I understand the attraction of “cross platform,” but it would seem that performance and uasability would be vastly improved by writing actual native applications — especially for a billion dollar company that can afford to do it and especially since Slack is one of those apps that is constantly open and performance and efficiency have a real benefit.
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Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:00PM
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They've cornered the market and don't have to care anymore.
A lot of Slack's audience is captive - employees, contributors to open source projects that chose Slack as their social outlet, etc.
Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
by Despegar on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @07:40PM
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The only way this will change is if Apple starts using more "stick" approaches. Marzipan and whatever other technologies they're working on are the "carrot".
Re:WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS
by eschaton on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:16PM
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Amen. “Cross-platform UI” has always meant “doesn’t work well.”