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A comment on Ask HN: What subtleties distinguish a native desktop app from cross-platform?.

Re:Ask HN: What subtleties distinguish a native desktop app ... by dapperdrake on Saturday February 01, 2025 @10:48PM (#42905630)
Are cross-platform and native even mutually exclusive?

You can have a C89 application that conditionally (#ifdef) compiles differently on MS Windows and Linux. It’s native. And it’s cross-platform.

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Re:Ask HN: What subtleties distinguish a native desktop app ... by jfaulken on Saturday February 01, 2025 @10:56PM (#42905662)
In this context I took "cross-platform" to mean "Electron."
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