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Re:Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that ha... by gridlockd on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:46AM (#23769824)
What exactly makes a GUI "native", in your view? WebKit and MSHTML/Edge, they all render to the screen with native APIs. They're part of the operating system. Lots of native applications have used these for decades.
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Re:Tauri – toolchain for building secure native apps that ha... by distances on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:55AM (#23771108)
For me "native" on desktop still means compiled to target architecture without any runtime VM/interpretation.

I agree this is getting more muddy on mobile as, say, "native Android" almost always now means bytecode using the platform SDKs.

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