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pointlessonetoday at 8:07 AM3 repliesview on HN

I’d wager that it’s as native as Electron. It might be faster, sure, but it’s not native to any platform.


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Levitatingtoday at 12:28 PM

How so? It renders to a window buffer using your GPU API and interfaces with your OS for event handling. Electron renders using an embedded browser and uses said browser for input/events. Isn't that quite different?

embedding-shapetoday at 11:15 AM

> but it’s not native to any platform

Why is this still a talking point? So what if the app renders with AppKit or Cairo on macOS, you can both look as native as the other, doesn't the actual UX matter more than how the implementation was made?

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bananapubtoday at 8:35 AM

raph wrote about that already: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/gui/2022/07/15/next-dozen-g...

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