I love native desktop apps, I will miss them

Re:I love native desktop apps, I will miss them by konradkpl on Monday June 26, 2023 @09:40AM (#36479552)

My favorite applications that I use on macOS are those whose interface was built using native APIs. In the post I describe my favorite advantages with examples and explain why I would choose web technologies for my own app.

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Re:I love native desktop apps, I will miss them by Rochus on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:36PM (#36482075)

> As a product manager and developer, in most cases I would not start creating applications for one platform using native technologies.

You could use Qt instead of e.g. Electron and have virtually all of the advantages you mention.

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Re:I love native desktop apps, I will miss them by cxr on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:00PM (#36522247)

Alternatively, a serious effort to make Cocoa viable on other platforms (by which I mean such that it is at parity with the same experience on Mac OS) would probably be more welcome, considering this is an expression of love for native apps, and Qt isn't native anywhere except for KDE—a desktop environment with minority usage on an already minority platform.

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