Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by cosmotic on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:45AM (#50405934)

Java desktop was only ugly if you chose for it to be. It was pretty minimal effort to get native look and feel. Nothing built in electron looks native. If we're accepting custom interface using electron, that was doable with Java too.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by threetonesun on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:26PM (#50407738)

JetBrains IDEs arguably look/behave better than VSCode as far as a native app goes. I wouldn't say either look great on MacOS but a truly "native feeling" Mac app is usually quite different than a Linux/Windows equivalent.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by pjmlp on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:41PM (#50407841)

Long time ago, Apple had a proper OS X Swing L&F, when you could do Cocoa in Java, and there was still some uncertainty if Objective-C would be embraced by Mac OS development community.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by johnny22 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:06PM (#50410088)

I much prefer vscode to intellij

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by NetMageSCW on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:35PM (#50409073)

Why is it no one ever seems to do it then? I have never seen a Java app look or act native on Windows.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by dingaling911 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:09PM (#50410101)

Eclipse

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by sdthjbvuiiijbb on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:23PM (#50410163)

I haven't used Eclipse in a decade, so maybe it's changed, but back then it was very much a Java UI, not a native feeling one.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by dingaling911 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:26PM (#50410174)

I remember the Java UI, but at some point they switched to a version of Swing that made it look more native, at least on Linux.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by cowlevel on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:39AM (#50410963)

Eclipse uses SWT which uses real native controls.

Of course Linux doesn't have native controls - I think it uses GTK on Linux.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by cyberax on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:02AM (#50410813)

It used SWT, which was a thin wrapper over native controls.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by dingaling911 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:10AM (#50412248)

Ahh yes that's right.

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by pacoverdi on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:56AM (#50411264)

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by hobo123 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:29AM (#50412344)

They had native looking skins for Swing that still felt slightly off and behaved differently. Netbeans IDE looked nice, but it was weird in subtle ways.

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