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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by userbinator on Sunday May 17, 2020 @10:11PM (#23217486)
There simply wasn't any guarantee that once you installed a native app, you could ever fully remove it. Not to mention all the baggage with DLL hell, and the propensity of software to write random junk all over the filesytem.

Bloated, inefficient software is certainly present on the native side too, but it's also possible to write single-binary "portable" ones that don't require any installation --- just download and run.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by eldavido on Sunday May 17, 2020 @11:49PM (#23218120)
OS API sets have evolved toward more sandboxing. Things are more abstract. Fewer files on disk, more blob-store-like things. Fewer INI files in C:\Windows, more preference stores. No registry keys strewn about. .NET strong naming rather than shoving random DLLs into memory via LoadLibraryA()

(Hi, I'm a windows dev)

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