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Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor by coldtea on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:22PM (#23128420)
>I'm not sure I understand what makes this more "native" than Javascript.

Not using a full blown web rendering engine (if that's the case) but OS painting (not necessarily GUI) APIs would make it much more native in my eyes...

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Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor by cwyers on Saturday May 09, 2020 @08:52PM (#23129449)
I don't see why. Electron apps, for all their faults, use the OS to render text, so they respect things like system-wide settings on scale, you can use your installed fonts, you can use screenreaders and other accessibility technologies.
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