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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? by jmrm on Thursday March 24, 2022 @05:05PM (#30795334)
Not only Electron apps, also any desktop program made with web technologies.

At an example, let's look at Dropbox desktop programs. In Windows is made mixing Qt, Python scripts, and native solutions (just have a look at the installation folder), resulting in both a worse performance an a use of RAM.

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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? by purerandomness on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:18PM (#30796077)
I'd consider Qt (including PyQt) to be a native app. Qt is not something I'd call a "web technology".
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Re:Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more? by jmrm on Saturday March 26, 2022 @03:21PM (#30814548)
That's totally true. I forgot to write that Dropbox uses Qt WebEngine in combination with HTML + CSS + JS to achieve what could be done with just plain Qt with nothing more.
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