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Re:Electron 7.0 by jcelerier on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:12PM (#21349227)
Qt does that, too, but that is not nearly enough if you really want to make pixel- and interaction- perfect things. A "native" macos app is fundamentally different from a "native" windows app. Dock vs systray, different usage of menus, mouse and keyboard. Different widgets - Windows does not use baloon widgets and sheets. etc etc...
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Re:Electron 7.0 by Razengan on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:06AM (#21352064)
> A "native" macos app is fundamentally different from a "native" windows app.

The visual and interactive differences between a macOS app and a Windows app are actually less stark than the differences between a macOS app and a watchOS app (crown) or a tvOS app (remote), but so far, despite its early bugs and limitations, SwiftUI does a great job of outputting the native controls on all [of Apple's] platforms.

Things like NavigationViews and TabViews produce different beasts on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS, from the same code.

See WWDC 2019: SwiftUI On All Devices: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/240/

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