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

Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by pindab0ter on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:01AM (#50411546)

I am not very familiar with Kotlin Multiplatform, but couldn't you use a Swift/Objective C library for iOS, while using a Kotlin library for Android? What would be the blocker to this?

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Re:Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord ju... by franga2000 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:32AM (#50412006)

There's no blocker, but that's not a comparable development experience to more mature cross-platform toolkits.

I now have a separate QR scanning implementation for three platforms and a bunch of if statements in the Gradle files. It took 4x as much effort (once for each platform, plus the work to tie it all together) and now I also need to know how to develop for those platforms, which is exactly what I wanted to avoid by picking a cross-platform toolkit.

This will hopefully improve with time, as it did with RN and Flutter, but my point is that we're simply not there yet.

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