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Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native

162 pointsby todsacerdotiyesterday at 5:09 PM190 commentsview on HN

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1970-01-01yesterday at 6:58 PM

Isn't native just the CLI?

dankwizardyesterday at 10:22 PM

With today's processors and speeds, there really is no difference in performance of these Electron apps vs Native and anyone disagreeing just dislikes the JS ecosystem

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dtagamesyesterday at 10:34 PM

This is a good thing. Native was always a place where gatekeeping and proprietary crap sprout and thrive.

It can't die soon enough. Doesn't all have to be Electron, but web tech for the win and force everything to the browser unless you'd like to write it twice.