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layer8today at 11:01 AM2 repliesview on HN

> It makes web apps first class productivity applications.

They won’t be first-class as long as native UI still has the upper hand.


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whywhywhywhytoday at 12:03 PM

This battle is long won in favor of webtech in every realm but 3d/video editing/audio work/things that do gpu heavy lifting like game engines.

Outside those sort of spaces it’s hard to name a popular piece of software still on native that isn’t a wrapped webapp.

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cobolexperttoday at 11:08 AM

In which way does native UI have the upper hand, do you think? To me it seems like a lot of users are largely indifferent to this aspect (e.g. so many applications nowadays being Electron/browser based). If browsers keep gaining capabilities then it seems like this gap will get even smaller.

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