Post #1658318
2026-03-02 14:52 UTC
@andrewt What's less bad: an application built as a Chromium instance, or a native application that ends up unavailable to most users because Linux and Windows don't implement the Cocoa API of macOS?
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@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-02 15:16
@PinoBatch I mean yes, cross-platform releases are a great thing — but the day before Electron came out we already had the JVM and .NET/Mono so I'm not sure what Electron contributed there except that now we can make our cross-platform apps in a language with no native support for integers, with UIs that diverge wildly from the native OS conventions
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@flesh@transfem.social 2026-03-02 18:37
@PinoBatch@peoplemaking.games @andrewt@mathstodon.xyz The least bad is a project that doesn't have absurdly OS-specific requirements and can be compiled for any reasonable platform without needing to rely on a massively bloated abstraction.